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To all who believe that to keep body 
and mind healthy is a worthy task of 
every human being, — to all mothers 
who consider it their duty to bring up 
strong and able children, — to all who are 
willing to look upon nature as the creative 
and, therefore, as the logical healing pow- 
er, — to all who want to understand the 
truth, that not poison, but the reasonable 
assistance of man to nature in its efforts, 
means healing, and that to obtain success, 
not the symptom, but the cause of evil, 
must be attacked, — to all who thus 
want to contribute to their own happi- 
ness and the procreation of a healthier 
and better humanity, this brief abstract 
and guide is dedicated, with my best 
wishes. 

Dare to be Healthy. 

Seattle, Christmas, 1915. 

DR. LOUIS DECHMANN. 



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INDEX 



The hygienic-dietetic method of healing 9 

Man as a unit 15 

Metabolism 17 

Variety of organs 19 

The constituent elements ~ 22 

Dysemia the cause of all constitutional diseases 23 

Heredity „ 26 

The healing 27 

Diet 27 

Nutritive (Dech-Manna) Compositions 28 

Physical Treatments 28 

The unity of nature 29 

The chemical process of disease 31 

The twelve tissues 32 

1. Sero tissue 33 

2. Lymphoid tissue 34 

3. Nerve tissue 35 

4. Bone tissue 35 

5. Muscular tissue 36 

6. Mucous membrane tissue 37 

7. Tooth and eye tissue 37 

8. Hair tissue 38 

9. Skin tissue 38 

10. Gelatigenous tissue 39 

11. Cartilage tissue ..._ 39 

12. Body tissue in general 40 

Degeneration of tissues (general synopsis) 41 

The various diseases and their healing 44 

Diet .. 45 

Form I 47 

Form II 48 

Form III 48 

Form IV 49 

Form V 50 

Form VI 50 



INDEX — Continued. 

Nutritive (Dech-Manna) Compositions 51 

No. 1. Serogen 52 

No. 2. Lymphogen .. 52 

No. 3. Neurogen : 52 

No. 4. Osseogen 52 

No. 5. Muscogen 52 

No. 6. Mucogen 52 

No. 7. Dento-Ophthogen 52 

No. 8. Capillogen 52 

No. 9. Dermogen 52 

No. 10. Gelatinogen 52 

No. 11. Cartilogen 52 

No. 12. Eubiogen 52 

Special Compositions 52 

Physical Treatment 53 

The packs 58 

Important general advice o4 

General rules 69 

Abdominal pack 70 

Cross pack 74 

Leg packs 76 

Neck pack 80 

Shoulder pack 80 

Scotch pack 82 

Divided Scotch pack 83 

The shawl 84 

The three-quarter pack 85 

The half pack 88 

The whole pack 89 

Small compresses 91 

Gymnastics, massage and breathing exercises.... 92 

Electric vibrators 95 

Oxygenator, radium and salt baths 96 

The diseases to be treated and the application of 

the method 98 

I. Degeneration of the sero tissue 100 

Anemia, chlorosis, pernicious anemia 100 

A. Scrofulosis 100 

B. Tuberculosis 100 

C. Syphilis 100 



INDEX — Continued. 

D. Cancer 100 

Therapy 105 

Diet : I. For the anemic 105 

I and II A. For scrofulous patients 107 

I and II B. For tuberculous patients 109 

I and II C. For syphilitic patients 110 

I and II D. For cancer patients 110 

Dech-Manna-Compositions ... Ill 

Physical Ill 

II. Degeneration of the lymphoid tissue 112 

III. Degeneration of the nerve tissue 112 

Neuralgia, neuritis, neurasthenia 114 

Asthma, epilepsy, St. Vitus's dance 114 

Therapy 115 

Diet 115 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 117 

Physical _ 118 

IV. Degeneration of the bone tissue 118 

Rickets, osteomalacia and similar diseases 118 

Therapy 119 

Diet 119 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 122 

Physical 122 

V. Degeneration of the muscular tissue 122 

Muscular rheumatism, sciatica 122 

Infantile paralysis, atrophy 122 

Amyloid heart, kidneys, liver 122 

Therapy 123 

Diet 123 

Special diet: Diseases of heart and inactive 

kidneys 125 

For irritable kidneys and diseases of bladder.... 129 

For liver diseases 130 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 131 

Physical 131 

VI. Degeneration of the mucous membrane tissue.... 132 

Catarrh, acute and chronic 132 

Bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia 132 

Inflammation of nose, throat, bowels, stomach, 

bladder 132 



INDEX — Continued. 

Hemorrhoids, polyps, benign tumors 132 

Bright' s disease (first stage) 132 

Therapy 134 

Diet 134 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 135 

Physical 135 

VII. Degeneration of tooth and eye tissues 136 

Therapy 137 

Diet 137 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 137 

Physical 138 

VIII. Degeneration of the hair tissue 138 

Therapy 139 

Diet ". 139 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 139 

Physical 139 

IX. Degeneration of the skin tissue 139 

Therapy 141 

Diet 141 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 142 

Physical 142 

X. Degeneration of the gelatigenous tissue 142 

Stomach and intestinal diseases 143 

Therapy 144 

Diet 144 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 148 

Physical 148 

XL Degeneration of the cartilaginous tissue 149 

Ankylosis, gout, arthritis 149 

Therapy 150 

Diet 150 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 150 

Physical . „ 150 

XII. Degeneration of the body tissue in general.... 150 

Ataxia, Basedow's disease 151 

Diabetes mellitus, obesity 151 

Bright's disease (progressive stage), arterio- 
sclerosis 151 

Children's diseases 153 

Diet for children in general 154 



/ A r D E X — Continued. 

Diet for school children 156 

Fever and its treatment based on biology 159 

General description 159 

Treatment 164 

Diet in case of fever 169 

Some children's diseases 174 

Summer complaint 174 

Therapy 174 

Diet 174 

Physical 175 

So-called positive children's diseases 175 

Scarlet fever, measles, German measles 175 

Chicken-pox, tvphoid fever, diphtheria 175 

Diet .... 178 

Dech-Manna-Compositions 178 

Physical 178 

Diphtheria 179 

Endemic and epidemic diseases 187 

Diseases of the sex 188 

Sterility and impotence and how to cure same.... 188 

The process of generation 197 

Women's diseases pertaining to sex 200 

A. General __ .. 200 

B. Sterility 206 

The sterility of men 215 

A. Permanent or temporary sterility 216 

B. Impotence 218 

1. Organic impotence 219 

2. Functional impotence 220 

3. Nervous impotence 220 

4. Paralytic impotence 221 

5. Psychic impotence 221 

6. Homosexual impotence 222 

Finale 223 



ERRATA. 

Page 39. See line 4 from bottom. Should read "tissue" 
instead of tisue. 

Page 72. Cut No. 1. Letters on cut indicate : 

a. Linen. 

b. Woolen blanket. 

Page 77. Cut No. 3. Letters on cut indicate : 

a. Towel or linen. 

b. Woolen blanket. 

Page 89. Cut. No. 9 shows only how linen should be 
packed around the legs in case of whole 
packs. Before applying such linen, the wool- 
en blanket — which is omitted in the cut — 
must be laid under the linen, so that the 
patient may be wrapped in it after the linen 
is placed around him, all in accordance with 
instructions given in article. 

Page 111 and others listing Dech-Manna-Compositions. 
Wherever the Dech-Manna-Compositions are 
mentioned under the heading of "main com- 
positions," the compositions printed in Italics 
are the main compositions to be used, and 
the others are only secondary compositions. 

Page 145. See line 10 from top. Should read "govern- 
ing" instead of govering. 

Page 221. See line 3 from bottom. Should read "dis- 
tinguished" instead of distinguihed. 



DARE TO BE HEALTHY. 



The Hygienic-Dietetic Method of Healing. 

Biology, the science of life, has developed 
that system of healing which is practised by 
me as it is by a number of the most success- 
ful physicians in Germany. After years, or 
better said, centuries of trying to attack the 
disturbances of health, which we call diseases, 
from the outside, after countless complica- 
tions and infinite specializing, we have found 
the way back to unity and simplicity, such as 
we call nature. Based upon this principle, 
we call ours the natural method of healing. 
The greatest physicians of all times, from 
Hippocrates to our day, were only the natural 
physicians and healers. They were not satis- 
fied to suppress the symptoms of disturb- 
ances and to quiet the patient for a while, 
but they have tried, and have succeeded 
in reaching the source of the evil. In this 
way they have not only healed where others 
failed to do so, but have also prevented re- 
occurrence of disease. And what is still 
more: whenever they had a chance tp in- 

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fluence people before they fell sick, these 
healers exercised the greatest privilege which 
ever came in the wake of knowledge and wis- 
dom : the prevention of disease, the preserva- 
tion of health. 

It is not the object of this pamphlet to go 
into the many details which a full explanation 
of the teachings of this most modern and 
most successful method requires. This pamph- 
let will, as a rule, come to the hand of those 
who are seeking my advice and help, when 
they have experienced the failures of others. 
They will have heard that this new method is 
different from the old and governing one. 
And little as they may know of what the old 
method really is, it has been my invariable 
experience that before they gain faith in the 
new one, they want to be enlightened about 
it. They want to get a general idea on what 
we base our experience, and the wonderful 
hope of healing that we are able to hold out to 
them, the shining light in a wilderness of 
struggle, pain and despair. And fortunately 
we are able to give them this enlightenment. 
It is one of the qualities of our modern hy- 
gienic-dietetic method of natural healing that 
we do not shroud ourselves in the mystery of 

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the physician of the old school. We want our 
patients to know our methods, want them to 
know themselves as much as possible, want 
them to follow our instructions, not because 
they have faith in us, but because we have 
been able to convince them that we are ration- 
al, human, natural in all our doings. 

I have considered it as my duty towards 
humanity to lay down the results of my 
studies, the results of the struggles of a life- 
time in a large and comprehensive work, 
which to the scientist as well as to the layman 
will represent the most explicit guide in the 
art of being healthy: It will give him the 
courage to be so and to make others so; it 
will, if closely followed and observed, pre- 
vent much of the evil of disease, and if such 
still comes — and no human power will be 
able to avoid it completely — will give the 
patient the necessary enlightenment to as- 
sist the hygienic-dietetic physician in his 
task to restore health. This book, which will 
be published shortly, will, I sincerely hope 
in the interests of healthy mankind, become 
an indispensable guide, found in every 
household, of people who dare to be healthy. 
But until this time comes, it will be neces- 

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sary, as it has been heretofore, to enlighten 
many of the ever growing number of my 
followers and patients on the general ideas 
of the method. Thus the following lines 
will prove as a welcome introduction to, and 
a most necessary explanation of, the method 
which will be applied to the patient. He 
will then walk the path towards health in 
light. He will, as he should, be able to study 
by close observation of himself, how the 
method of living which we prescribe, leads 
him back from suffering to health. It will 
strengthen him, not only in the hope of full 
recovery, but in his undaunted efforts for 
himself and for all people who believe in him, 
to remain in health forever. 

In following up the general idea, this 
pamphlet will not be devoted to the other- 
wise necessary fight against the errors of 
the present medical school, except to the ex- 
tent to which the ordinary layman has been 
educated to believe in its teachings. This 
must be done, because otherwise it would 
leave the patient powerless as against the in- 
fluence of antiquated ideas, to believe in 
which he has been taught since his earliest 
days. Today he either believes in these or he 

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disbelieves in them so thoroughly that he has 
become the prey of some still more mysteri- 
ous and unscientific superstitious method, 
which by means of glowing* advertising has 
been able to establish a following among 
justly disappointed and despairing people. 
It is a most earnest protest that the hy- 
gienic-dietetic method of biological healing 
should not be confounded with these latter 
methods in any way. It has with them only 
one thing in common; the stern and de- 
cided fight against the present medical 
school with its numerous errors and its in- 
tentional disregard of such progress of 
science, which would reduce the profitable 
exercise of its obsolete methods, its system 
of poisonous medicine, of operations and 
antitoxins. Otherwise the lecture of even 
this little book of explanation must satisfy 
every one that the teachings of the method 
which we apply and which it has been my 
good fortune to develop and to perfect 
through personal studies of biology to the 
point at which it is now, are absolutely 
scientific. We expect no miracles, we do 
not claim that we can do anything super- 
natural or that we are in possession of super- 

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natural secrets or powers. We are merely 
natural and have profited from the simple 
fact that, with the aid of great scientists, we 
have finally come to what ought to have 
been our aim long ago, to the exact knowl- 
edge of what the human being is. We have 
thus arrived at the method of supplying it 
with what it lacks, in the way in which it 
shall be able to receive and assimilate ft. 
Simple as this sounds, it has been a long 
way until that goal was reached. In the 
fight of our days we find on one side those 
who have without any reverence for well 
meaning and earnest believers of the pre- 
vious errors cast aside all scruples in the 
interest of truth. On the other side there 
are those who are afraid to hurt the feelings 
of men who are too old or too persistent to 
give up the teachings of a life time, for 
what they feel sure the younger generation 
will inevitably accomplish. 



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MAN AS A UNIT. 

The human body is an accumulation of 
millions of separate cells, which are the 
bearers of life, and which in various groups 
form the different organs which allow us to 
carry on our own existence. This existence 
is the natural consequence of the existence 
of former human beings, who have generated 
the new life that shall be transferred by us 
into some other living being. In like way 
all functions of our body form a chain in 
which not a single link must be missing, if 
what we call life, shall continue. This ac- 
cumulation of cells, however, is by no means 
stationary. On the contrary. Life means 
nothing but the permanent dying of the old 
and the reconstruction of new cells; it means 
that we are in a permanent condition of 
composition and consequently of decomposi- 
tion of our entire being, but not of its dif- 
ferent parts. As soon as we are able to rec- 
ognize this accumulation of cells as the one 
thing and thus arrive at the idea of their 
absolute interdependence, we are doing away 

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with the general idea, that the apparent out- 
side difference in our many organs makes 
them separate and independent things which 
may be treated in case of disease by dif- 
ferent specialists. We arrive at the one 
great question: What is the cause of disease, 
not of one or the other disease or of a class 
of diseases. There is, in fact, only one dis- 
ease. What appears to us as different dis- 
turbances of the normal condition of our 
body, is only a variation in quantity or in 
quality of one thing. It is the variation of 
the controlling element which attends to 
that necessary permanent work of keeping 
the existing cells in proper condition and 
replacing the cells which in the natural 
course of events are destroyed. In one word, 
the work of permanent regeneration in us, which 
is life. 



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METABOLISM. 

This permanent changing of the entire 
human body, the removal of the used up 
cells, burned by oxidation and leaving the 
body through the urine, the perspiration and 
other excretions, and their replacement by 
the new ones, is called metabolism, that is, 
"change of matter." It is perfected through 
the means of a most elaborate fluid in our 
body, which circulates from the second, 
in which the male seed touches the 
female egg in the womb of the mother, 
until the moment of our last breath. 
The blood, the carrier of nature's forces to 
all spots of the human body where the re- 
building of cells is required. That masterful 
distributor of quantities of material which 
determine the qualities of cells. In its mar- 
velous permanence of function, the blood 
carries the only existing causes of health 
and disease, which are the existence of alt 
the necessary elements of upbuilding in the 
right proportions ; this is health, and the lack 
of them is disease. Such is the tremendous 
demand of nature to build up that the 

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wrong proportion may cause the upbuilding 
of things which are different and disturbing 
in our regular organism. But, on the other 
hand, nature has the permanent desire to 
counterbalance any disturbance in the said 
proportion, and to bring about the right one. 
We may thus justly speak of an overwhelm- 
ing healing tendency of nature. Metabolism is 
thus the one great function of our body which 
must have our permanent care. Consequently 
it is the blood, an absolute unit as everybody 
knows, to which in the last analysis we can 
only resort if we want to assist nature in its 
process and tendency of balancing and heal- 
ing. This again shows that, notwithstanding 
the apparent great variety of all constitu- 
tional diseases, they are all practically the same. 
They are all disturbances of proper metabolism, 
by some irregularity of the quantitative or 
qualitative condition of the blood. 

This governing truth the great physio- 
logist, Prof. Jacob Moleschott, has formulat- 
ed in the immortal words: "It is one of the 
chief questions which humanity must always 
ask of the physician, how to attain good, 
healthy and active blood. And we may view 
the question as we wish, all who occupy 

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their minds with it are forced by experience 
to acknowledge explicitly, inconsiderately, 
or bashfully and timidly, that our thinking, 
our sensibility, our pozver and our children are 
dependent on our blood, and our. blood on our 
nutrition" 



VARIETY OF ORGANS. 

Why then, will you ask, if such unity is 
true, this difference in the human organs, 
which is so obvious? How is it that a bone 
in its stonelike hardness is essentially the 
same as the infinite tender eye? This, we 
have pointed out before, is the adaption of 
certain parts of the tremendous accumula- 
tion of cells to different functions, which 
has necessitated the various arrangements of 
the underlying elements. But all of the ele- 
ments are in the blood, which carries them 
in the necessary quantities to the different 
points where they are needed and are used 
to help the organs in question in replacing 
the used-up matter. We do not overlook the 
difficulty of grasping this idea of unity. In 

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fact, that it was so hard has led to the great- 
est errors in present medical science. It 
seemed necessary to study the different or- 
gans as entirely different groups, to work 
out a careful system of bones, of intestinal 
organs, of blood-vessels, of nerves, and so 
on. This is of course very valuable, but only 
from a descriptive standpoint. Anatomy 
shows us what life has produced in the way 
cf a human being, but it does not lead to 
the source of life, and consequently not to 
the source of health. It is well to know the 
different forms of cell accumulations, which 
are called organs, but if we want to keep 
them in good order, we must watch closely 
what is common in them, because it is only 
from this standpoint that we are able to 
supply the necessary and possibly lacking 
elements, in order to heal. And thus, as one 
of the greatest progresses of modern science, 
we have come to the one thing, so badly neg- 
lected through centuries, to the chemical 
analysis of the human body and of its dif- 
ferent organs. A new light has been thus 
shed upon the most essential questions for a 
new healing system. The chemist went to 
work and discovered that every organ of the 

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human body, that is, that the entire human 
body consisted of a certain number of chem- 
ical elements, which appeared at different 
parts in different aggregations, which ag- 
gregations, however, repeated themselves in 
various so-called organs. It was thus finally 
discovered that there are twelve main differ- 
ent aggregations of such elements, which groups 
of equal elements we call tissues. And from 
this discovery we have come to the great 
truth that it is not the object of healing to turn 
its attention to the various organs, but to the 
various tissues. The influence which we can 
exercise on these tissues is exercised through 
the blood which nourishes all of them, and 
which has the wonderful capacity of carrying 
to each of them their necessary building and 
rebuilding, regenerating materials, — provided 
they are in the blood. 



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THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS. 

The studies of chemists have so far de- 
termined that there are sixteen definite and 
discernible elements (a seventeenth is about 
to be definitely determined), which in their 
various compositions and aggregations form 
the different tissues of which the various or- 
gans of the human body are constructed. The 
prevalence of one or several of these ele- 
ments in a certain tissue forms the main or 
governing tissue or tissues of any organ. So 
the prevalence of potassium phosphate forms 
the muscle tissue, the prevalence of ammoni- 
um phosphate (lecithin) forms the nerve tissue. 
For our purpose of general explanation it is 
sufficient to know that each of the various 
tissues consists of some of these elements, 
and that each of the tissues, at every spot in 
the body where it exists, is affected through 
the lack of one or the other element. The 
greatest of all chemists, Justus von Liebig, 
maintains that if one of the necessary ele- 
ments in a chemical composition is missing, 
the rest cannot fulfil their duties, and the 

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consequence of such lack is that the cell in 
question must become diseased and de- 
generate. This discovery, "the law of the 
minimum," has thrown an additional light on 
the tasks of the new medicine. To bring to 
the tissue the lacking constituent element or 
elements by way of the blood is the only means 
of regenerating, that is, of healing its diseased 
cells. 



DYSEMIA THE CAUSE OF ALL CON- 
STITUTIONAL DISEASES. 

In this pamphlet we are not treating the 
disturbances in the system of the human 
body caused by traumatic influences, wounds, 
etc. We are speaking only of the con- 
stitutional diseases which, whether of acute or 
of chronic character are all caused by the lack 
of such chemical elements. We have 
shown above that the blood supplies all of 
the chemical substances to the different tis- 
sues, and that consequently it is the lack of 
these elements in the blood, which causes 
the tissues to degenerate, in other words, 
the lack of certain chemical elements in the 

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blood is disease. Thus it is merely a ques- 
tion as to which of the elements are missing 
or which do not exist in correct proportion, 
that determines the different diseases. As 
soon as this fact was established, the method 
of healing diseases was shown in the main 
by supplying in the regular way, that is, by 
addition to the regular food, the said chem- 
ical elements, and the medical art had but to 
determine which elements were missing, and 
consequently had to be supplied. It is ob- 
vious that in this system the old drug method, 
filling the body with various poisons to counter- 
act the effects of disease, has no more room. 
It may suppress certain symptoms by be- 
numbing the nerves and preventing pains; 
it may counteract the natural process of heal- 
ing which nature exercises in various forms, 
causing inflammations, fever or pains; but it 
can never heal. 

With the discovery of dysemia as the 
governing cause of disease, another idol of 
modern medicine had to break down. Since 
the discovery of the bacilli, which in various 
forms accompany nearly every sort of dis- 
ease of the human body, it had become a 
teaching of medicine that the various bacilli 

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were the causes of the different diseases, 
and the tendency was to find some poison 
that would kill the bacilli in order to heal 
the disease. The truth is that the bacillus is 
nothing but another consequence or a symp- 
tom of a certain disease; that bacilli grow 
and find a ready soil in the diseased and 
decomposing part through the lack of the 
necessary chemical elements ; but that to kill 
them, while the underlying conditions for 
their reproduction remain unchanged, can 
never bring about healing. And thus the 
great hopes which were attached to the sero- 
therapy, the giving of antitoxins prepared 
with the serum of animals, have once more 
vanished. But hundreds of thousands of 
human beings will hereafter be spared the 
cruel attempt to poison them, in order to 
remove the natural consequences of some 
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HEREDITY. 

The discovery that the diseased condi- 
tion of the blood was leading to certain de- 
structions which we call diseases, was soon 
followed by the statement of the fact that 
cne of the main conditions which bring 
about this disturbance, is predisposition, 
which in many cases is hereditary. "Here- 
ditary disease" means only that the im- 
proper chemical composition of the blood of 
one or both parents is duplicated in the off- 
spring, and that it has the same consequen- 
ces in causing the degeneration of certain 
tissues, and consequently of the organs made 
from them, as it may or could have had in 
the parents. This leads to the gratifying 
conclusion that to the modern hygienic-dietetic 
system of healing, heredity is perhaps a more 
tenacious, but by no means an invincible enemy. 
With the predisposition for the disease the 
child acquires the hereditary tendency of be- 
ing healed, and thus rational hygienic-dietetic 
treatment may be able to eliminate, in a com- 
paratively short time, the chain of diseases 
which in former years, generations had to 
bear to a hopeless grave. 

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THE HEALING. 

Having learned that the healing of the 
modern hygienic-dietetic system means the 
supplying of the blood with such chemical 
elements as will replace what is missing in 
certain tissues of a certain human body, we 
are now arriving at the method of carrying 
out this plan. In a general outline there are 
three ways of doing this. , 

Diet: The first and most natural way 
is proper diet. As the chemical elements are 
introduced into the body with the regular 
food, the task which in the first place the 
hygienic-dietetic physician will have to ful- 
fil, is that of regulating the quantity and 
quality of food, including the question of 
what it shall consist. Too little importance 
has heretofore been given to this question 
and, except prohibiting certain dishes which 
most patients did not want anyway, little 
change was advocated by the physician in 
the every day nourishment of the patient. 
The hygienic-dietetic physician will use his 
utmost care in giving the patient everything 
that helps to regenerate his blood, laying 
particular stress on such food which con- 

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tains much of the elements that are missing 
in the various affected tissues. 

Nutritive compositions: The process of 
destruction, however, which has to be met, 
in nearly every case requires the supply, in 
pure material and in larger quantities, of the 
missing- elements without the long round- 
about way of digestion of every-day food. 
The nutritive compositions contain only 
such chemical elements in such chemical 
proportions as exist in the human body. 
They are consequently in no way poisonous 
or detrimental, and they foster that general 
regeneration of the blood which will finally 
bring about a complete cure. 

Physical treatments: It is their object 
to assist the proper circulation of the blood, 
to open the pores for external treatment of 
certain diseases, to withdraw elements of 
disease from the body and to introduce cer- 
tain material through the pores. Massage, 
gymnastics, ablutions, all kinds of baths and 
packs of all sorts, constitute the bulk of all 
healing methods in this direction. 

After this general explanation of the sys- 
tem, we will go a little deeper into the 
question of the constituent elements, the tis- 

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sues formed therefrom, the degeneration of 
these tissues, and the kind of degeneration 
that constitutes the various diseases known 
to us, and thereafter will give a short and 
easily intelligible general idea as to how 
to apply our method. 

THE UNITY OF NATURE. 

To understand the method of healing 
which I am applying, it is necessary to un- 
derstand one of the great laws, the discovery 
of which by chemists like Justus von Liebig 
and Julius Hensel, has shown us the path 
on which to proceed. This law demonstrates 
that in its last analysis nature is a unit, a 
composition of a number of elements, each 
of which has distinct qualities , and the com- 
bination of which produces the various mani- 
festations of life, which are classified, for 
convenience and according to their main 
qualities, as minerals, plants or animals. All 
of them are closely interrelated and one 
transmits the basic elements to the other. It 
is the plant which draws the elements of 
minerals from the soil, and after certain pro- 
cesses of composition conveys them as food 
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while such animal substances as men use 
for their food, contribute the balance of 
these elements for the upbuilding of the hu- 
man body. It is a matter of comparatively 
new discovery that the minerals are thus 
just as important a part of the human body 
and of its food as are other basic chemical ele- 
ments. The discovery as to which minerals, 
in which composition and in which quantity 
are necessary ingredients of the different 
body tissues, in order that they may be made 
part of the organism, has made it possible 
to feed them to the diseased body in the 
purest and most effective way in nutritive 
compositions, while their existence in food 
aiso regulates the diet, not only for sick 
people, but in order to prevent sickness. 
Moses, when his people in the desert were 
facing starvation, succeeded in saving them 
by getting direct solid and liquid food by 
striking the rock with his baton. He called 
that food "Manna." Never since those times 
has anything so like that kind of food been 
found as my compositions; and their great 
and permanent success has fully justified 
me in calling them Decli^'Manna" Nutritive 
Compositions. 

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THE CHEMICAL PROCESS OF 
DISEASE. 

The student of nature did not rest when 
he had found the composition of all the tis- 
sues of the body. He went further and dis- 
covered that certain electric currents and 
reactions of these elements were causes of 
accelerating or retarding- the natural pro- 
cesses of metamorphosis and metabolism, 
disturbances of the normal, which are felt as 
diseases. Excessive growth and lack of 
growth are thus explained. It cannot be the 
object of this short pamphlet to give all 
these scientific details. It is our object only 
to show that in their apparent simplicity the 
manifestations of life require great and in- 
trinsic knowledge, and it cannot be left to 
the layman exclusively to take care of them. 
The hygienic-dietetic physician, notwithstand- 
ing his open statement of facts and causes 
to his patient and to the world at large, 
can by no means be dispensed with in case 
of established disease, for only his experience 
and knowledge will allow him to advise 
how the natural system of healing must 
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will be able to regulate such processes as 
cause the disturbance, and thus bring about 
healing and regeneration, which is the return 
to the normal He will prevent the use 
of the surgeon's knife, which inflicts useless 
and irreparable harm. He will prevent the 
specialist, with his specific remedies for 
diseases, which after all are only degrees of 
one chemical process, from poisoning the 
body and making it an easy prey to new at- 
tacks of the same chemical anomalies, as 
long as they are not rectified according to 
the principles of biology. 



THE TWELVE TISSUES. 

Bearing the above principles of unity in 
mind, we may now proceed one step further, 
and study the most important details upon 
which the method of healing, as applied by 
the hygienic-dietetic physician, is based. As 
mentioned above, the cells of the human 
body have aggregated into twelve distinct 
tissues, some of which are the component 
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form and function. These twelve tissues are 
the following: 

1. The sero tissue (blood water). 

2. The lymphoid tissue. 

3. The nerve tissue. 

4. The bone tissue. 

5. The muscular tissue. 

6. The mucous membrane tissue. 

7. The tooth and eye tissue. 

8. The hair tissue. 

9. The skin tissue. 

10. The gelatigenous tissue. 

11. The cartilage tissue. 

12. The body tissue in general. 



1. The sero tissue. This tissue is a liquid, 
the blood water, which is one of the im- 
portant component parts of the life-giv- 
ing substance, blood. It contains the white 
and the red corpuscles. The red corpuscles 
are the carriers to the various tissues, of 
oxygen, which the body draws from the at- 
mosphere, and of the other nutriments. They 
exchange it for the carbonic acid which is 
forming in the body, and while the blood in 
flowing through the system of arteries, 
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the veins, the poisonous carbonic acid which 
is exhaled into the atmosphere. The red 
corpuscles, after having performed their du- 
ties, enter the liver and are used to build the 
gall. The proper quality of the serum alone 
guarantees the correct speed of blood cir- 
culation, its entrance into the most distant 
and narrow capillaries (the ultimate branch- 
es of the blood-vessels), and its capacity to 
carry all nutriments to their destination. 
The disturbance of this proper quality is 
among the main factors of constitutional 
diseases. 

2. The lymphoid tissue. The lymph is 
another of the life-giving liquids of the 
body, which through a vascular system of its 
own, draws certain nutritive substances from 
the food and carries them to certain organs 
which it feeds, especially to the nerves. Af- 
ter this slow work, the rest of the lymph 
enters the blood and is carried by it to 
other parts of the body where only smaller 
quantities of lymph are needed for nourish- 
ing purposes. The proper quality and chem- 
ical composition of the lymph, which is dif- 
ferent from that of the blood, is of no less 
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preservation and regeneration of health. 
What the serum is to the blood, the lymph 
is to the nerves. 

3. The nerve tissue. A particular ag- 
gregation of cells forms the nerves, which, 
emanating from their center in the brains 
and the spine, run as another separate sys- 
tem all through the body. This system, how- 
ever, is not one of vessels, but the nerves may 
best be compared to the wires of a tele- 
phone system, establishing connection be- 
tween the remotest parts of the body and its 
central point, from where the commands for 
the voluntary and involuntary movements 
are given and transferred through the nerves, 
They are of a peculiar chemical composition 
in which the nerve fat (lecithin) plays a 
very important part, since its frequent pres- 
ence in insufficient quantity is among the 
main causes of a great number of nervous 
and other diseases. 

4. The bone tissue. The bones consist 
of a special and very distinct tissue in 
which lime prevails, which gives them the 
strength and solidity to act as support to all 
other organs. The bones too are fed by the 
blood, and it is through the blood that the 

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necessary constituent parts for the regenera- 
tion of their tissue is conveyed to them. 
While naturally their power of resistance is 
greater than that of any other organ, they 
are nevertheless subject to a number of 
structural (not only traumatic) disturbances, 
which are caused partly by hereditary, part- 
ly by acquired qualities of the nourishing 
blood. Certain tissues which form the con- 
nection between the bones and the rest of 
the organs, and the gradual transition into 
other tissues, are distinctly different and 
treated separately. 

5. The muscular tissue : As to quantity, 
the muscular tissue represents the maximum 
of any in the human body. The muscles do 
not only consist of this one tissue, but of 
several others, as most of the other organs 
do, but here, as in all other cases, the main 
component element is called after the organ 
in which it is mainly found. The structure 
of the muscular tissue varies externally or 
mechanically according to its function, so 
that we distinguish the striated and the un- 
striated or smooth muscles. This, however, 
has no influence on their chemical composi- 
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fibrin, which has the particular property of 
contractibility. 

6. The mucous membrane tissue : The 
mucous membrane forms the covering of a 
great number of organs of the body, and its 
chemical and structural composition is iden- 
tical in all parts of the body where it is 
found. It is characterized by a viscid watery 
secretion from the mucous glands, which are 
always found in the mucous membrane. Its 
extremely tender nature makes it subject to 
all sorts of irregularities in chemical com- 
position, which is the cause of numerous 
diseases, most of which consist either in an 
overproduction or in a lack of production of 
the secretion which regulates quite a number 
of functions of the body. 

7. The tooth and eye tissue : While very 
different in their external appearance, func- 
tions and physical qualities, still the teeth 
and the eyes have the most important part 
of their chemical composition in common, 
the fluoric acid, which distinguishes them 
from all other tissues. In the process of 
natural healing the replacing of any lack- 
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case of destructions or disturbances in either 
tissue. 

8. The hair tissue: Some chemical com- 
ponent elements are only found in the tis- 
sue which is called the hair, and which re- 
ceives its nurture, like all other elements, 
by way of the blood. While the hair seems 
to be in apparently loose connection with the 
rest of the body, it is just as much an or- 
ganic part of the same, and must be fed and 
properly developed from the central system 
of nurture. 

9. The skin tissue: Of this tissue much 
can be said that has been mentioned above 
in regard to the mucous membrane. It, how- 
ever, has certain chemical elements which 
are characteristic to its various layers. Since 
the skin forms the most important inter- 
mediary between the elements of the outside 
world and the chemical and structural ele- 
ments of the interior of the human body, it 
is of the greatest importance that its chemic- 
al composition should always be correct, and 
that it should not be subject to decomposi- 
tion which improper nourishment brings 
about. It should be borne in mind that the 
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grows from the inside to the outside, so that 
anything concerning the skin which is not of 
traumatic nature, is based upon wrong or in- 
sufficient nourishment, and cannot be cured 
in any other way than by internal means. 

10. The gelatigenous tissue : This chem- 
ically and otherwise peculiar tissue, is the 
main component part of a great many of 
the human organs, and it may be said that 
the lack of attention which its peculiarities 
have received for a long time, has caused 
more diseases and their fatal termination 
than anything else. The gelatigenous tissue 
contains a number of special component ele- 
ments, which require special feeding through 
proper diet, and which in view of the fact 
that the gelatigenous tissue prevails in so 
many of the various organs affect the func- 
tional abilities of a great number of them. 
The elasticity of most organs which work by 
contraction and expansion, depends upon 
the gelatigenous, rubber-like tissue used in 
their construction. 

11. The cartilage tisue: Practically the 
same refers to the cartilage tissue, and it is 
cnly recently that it has been found to what 
extent, although entirely different in nature 

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and chemical composition, the cartilage tis- 
sue serves to maintain certain forms in the 
human body, which are not based on the 
still stronger forms of supporting material, 
such as the bone tissue and the gelatigenous 
tissue. 

12. The body tissue in general: This com- 
prises all tissues which are in any way 
different from the distinct tissues which we 
have just described, and which yet cannot be 
determined as separate and distinct for 
themselves. It may be justly presumed that 
all elements of the other tissues are found 
in these final tissues which keep the body in 
a unit. By devising a special nourishing 
system for the body tissue in general, all 
component elements profit, and such dis- 
eases as attack practically all the tissues and 
organs in the body will effectively be pre- 
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DEGENERATION OF TISSUES. 

Biologically we speak of disease if 
through some disturbance in the normal 
chemical composition of the above tissues, 
degeneration sets in. Such degeneration may 
attack one tissue or several at the same time. 
To reduce the elements to their proper pro- 
portion, to force them thereby to reassume 
their normal functions, means to restore health, 
to heal. As mentioned before, it has been 
the great and successfully solved problem 
of hygienic-dietetic healing, based on the 
laws of biology, to discover that so many 
diseases which for centuries were considered 
as entirely different from each other, and 
requiring specific treatment, were essen- 
tially the same. It was found that they were 
nothing but the natural consequence of im- 
pure or imperfect blood, a result of erron- 
eous feeding of this most important life- 
giving juice, which works greater havoc the 
longer the impurity passes by the process 
of heredity from one generation to another. 
Instead of the natural tendency to the norm- 
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became the soil in which all sorts of irregu- 
larities could grow in abundance, and com- 
bine in strong attacks on the normal organs, 
which were fast losing their natural power 
of resistance. 

The process of natural healing, although 
striving to keep as closely to the principle 
of unity of body as well as of disease, has 
by no means ignored such differences as are 
caused by the differences in the twelve tis- 
sues of the body, and according to the said 
differences, the constitutional diseases are group- 
ed as follozvs : 

1. Degeneration of the sero tissue : Ane- 
mia, Chlorosis, Pernicious Anemia. 

A. Scrofulosis. B. Tuberculosis. C. 
Syphilis. D. Cancer. 

2. Degeneration of lymphoid tissue: 
See 1— A. B. C. D. 

3. Degeneration of the nerve tissue: 
Neuralgia, Neuritis, Neurasthenia, Asthma, 
Epilepsy, St. Vitus's Dance, etc., etc. 

4. Degeneration of the bone tissue: 
Rickets, Osteomalacia and similar diseases. 

5. Degeneration of the muscular tissue: 
Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, Rheuma- 

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iism, Atrophia, Amyloid heart, kidney and 
liver. 

6. Degeneration of the mucous mem- 
brane tissue: A. Catarrh in all its forms: 
Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Inflamma- 
tion of nose, throat, bowels, stomach, bladder, 

etc. B. Hemorrhoids, Polyps, Adenoids. 

7. Degeneration of the tooth and eye 

tissue: All tooth and eye diseases. 

8. Degeneration of the hair tissue: All 
hair diseases. 

9 Degeneration of the skin tissue: All 
skin diseases. 

10. Degeneration of the gelatigenous 
tissue: A. Stomach and Intestinal diseases 
— acute form. B. Stomach and Intestinal 
diseases — chronic form. 

11. Degeneration of the cartilage tissue: 
Ankylosis, Gout, Arthritis deformans. 

12. Degeneration of the body tissue in 
general: A. Locomotor ataxia. B. Basedow's 
disease (Graves's disease.) C. Diabetes melli- 
tus. D. Obesity. E. Bright's disease. F. 
Arterio-sclerosis. 



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THE VARIOUS DISEASES AND THEIR 
HEALING. 

Leaving aside for the time being the 
special groups of more complicated diseases, 
such as are characterized by the degenera- 
tion of several of the above tissues at the 
same time, we "will now give a short and 
comprehensive description of the above 
mentioned distinct groups of diseases. In 
each case, as stated before, we must have a 
healing co-operation of three factors: 

1. Diet, the natural way of introducing 
into the healthy and the degenerating tissues 
of the body such substances as will keep up 
and strengthen the healthy tissues against 
the increased danger of attack and decom- 
position, and will stop the degeneration and 
prepare the regeneration of the tissue which 
is affected by the disease, 

2. Nutritive composition, such as will in 
each case introduce, in a pure and propor- 
tionate mixture, the necessary quantity of 
the sixteen nutritive salts, and of any which 
may be discovered hereafter, the lack of 
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the said diseases, and which diet alone 
could not introduce, or at least not as rapid- 
ly and effectively. 

3. Physical treatment, physical assistance 
to the proper distribution and assimilation of 
both diet and nutritive compositions, and the 
proper circulation of the blood. 



DIET. 

A tremendously extensive field is com- 
prised in this little word. It contains the 
science of what to eat, and since eating is one 
of our indispensable and absolutely necessary 
functions and part of our life, it is by no 
means negligible, even in case we feel abso- 
lutely healthy. I have treated this important 
subject in my big book with the minute de- 
tails, which it deserves, so that, in following 
the advice given in its chapter XIX, every 
one will be able to learn the dishes that are 
advisable and how to prepare them in the 
most sensible way. Here I can treat this sub- 
ject only in a short and general way, giving 
the main groups of diet, which will be pre- 
scribed, with more or less variation, in each 
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A few words only to show why diet plays this 
[important part in this system of healing - . 

In the body there is a laboratory produc- 
ing everything needed in order to live. This 
laboratory has several branches which are 
busy day and night without interruption. 
Here the life blood is created. Some of 
these branches are: 

The stomach with its prolonged intestines ; 

The liver; 

The kidneys; 

The lungs, and 

The skin. 

Each one of these branches has a certain 
part of the great work to perform. The 
stomach serves as the receiving vault. Here 
the food is mixed with the gastric juice which 
aids digestion and dissolves those ingredients 
of the food, necessary to produce blood, flesh, 
fat, bones, etc. Each of the other branches 
receives that part of the ingredients needed 
to produce its share of the work. 

A house cannot be constructed without a 
frame upon which every part of the building 
is dependent. We could not stand erect, walk, 
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work. The skeleton is the same to the body 
that the frame is to the house. This frame, 
the skeleton, the flesh, blood, etc. are all form- 
ed from the material furnished by the food. A 
part of the digested food is removed from 
the body as useless; everything else is used. 
The part of the food used must contain all 
those ingredients which go to make up the 
human body and keep it in order. 

Experience has developed certain groups 
of diet which for the sake of convenience we 
are enumerating under the name of Forms I 
to VI. These forms contain everything that 
sick people may eat, and from which the se- 
lection in each case will be made. They are 
as follows: 

Form L Complete elimination of the stomach 
in the nourishing process : To overcome thirst, 
moistening the mouth with ordinary or 
carbonic water, melting small pieces of 
ice on the tongue. Small sips of water 
either lukewarm or cold, according to the 
condition of the stomach. Otherwise, only 
introduction of water by clysmas, and if the 
stomach cannot be disturbed for more than 
one or two days, introduction of energetic 
nourishing substances by way of the rectum. 

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Form II. Purely liquid nourishment, "soup 
diet." Consomme of pigeon, chicken, veal, 
mutton, beef, beef tea, meat jelly which 
becomes liquid under the influence of the 
heat of the body, strained soups or such as 
are prepared of the finest flour with water or 
bouillon, of barley, oats, rice (slimy soup), 
green corn, rye flour, malted milk. All of 
these soups, with or without any additions, 
such as raw eggs, either whole or the yolk 
only, if well mixed and not coagulated, are 
easily digested. 

Form III. Nourishment which is not purely 
liquid, but partly mushy. 

Milk and milk preparations (belonging to 
this group on account of their coagulation in 
the stomach) : 

a) Cow's milk, diluted and without cream, 
dilution with 1-2 to 2-3 barley slime, rice 
water, lime water, ordinary water, vichy, light 
tea. 

b) Milk without cream, not diluted. 

c) Unskimmed milk. 

( both, as stated above, either 

d) Cream | diluted or not diluted. 

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e) All of these milk combinations with 
an addition of yolk well-mixed, whole egg, 
cocoa, also a combination of tgg and cocoa. 

Milk mush made of flour for children, ar- 
rowroot, mondanin, cereal flour of every kind, 
especially oats, grit soups with tapioca or 
sago and potato soup. 

Egg, raw, stirred, or sucked through a 
small hole out of the shell or warmed just a 
bit and poured into a cup; all these forms 
either without any addition or with a little 
sugar or salt. 

Biscuit and crackers, softened or rather 
well chewed and salivated, taken with milk, 
mush, etc. 

Form IV. Diet of the lightest kind, contain- 
ing meat, but still mainly mushy : 

Noodle soup, rice soup. 

Mashed boiled brains or sweetbread, or 
puree of white or red roasted meat, in 
soup. 

Brains and sweetbread boiled. 

Raw scraped meat (beef, ham, etc.) 

Lean veal sausages, boiled. 

Mashed potatoes prepared with milk. 

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Rice with bouillon or with milk. 
Toasted rolls and toast. 

Form V. Light diet, containing meat in 
more solid form : 

Pigeon, Chicken boiled. 

Small fish with little fat, such as brook or 
lake trout, boiled. 

Scraped beefsteak, raw ham, boiled tongue. 

As delicacies: Small quantities of caviar, 
frogs' legs, oysters, sardelles softened 
in milk. 

Salted potatoes crushed, spinach, young 
peas mashed, cauliflower, asparagus- 
tips, mashed chestnuts, mashed turnips, 
fruit sauces. 

Grit or sago puddings. 

Rolls, white bread. 

Form VI. Somewhat heavier meat diet. 
{Gradually returning to ordinary food). 

Pigeon, chicken, young deer, hare, every- 
thing roasted. 

Beef tenderloin, tender roast beef, roast 
veal. 

Boiled pike or carp. 

Young turnips, stachys, or topinambur. 

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All dishes to be prepared with very little 
fat, butter to be used exclusively. All strong 
spices to be avoided. 



NUTRITIVE COMPOSITIONS. 

The sixteen substances, nutritive salts, 
from which all of the tissues of the body are 
composed are: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, 
nitrogen, potassium, soda, lime, magnesia, 
iron, manganese, phosphor, sulphur, silica, 
chlorine, fluorine and iodine. 

My nutritive compositions consist of these 
same sixteen nutritive salts, each of them 
mixed in the same proportion as they are mix- 
ed in the tissue for the regeneration of which 
these nutritive compositions are prescribed. 
Since in various diseases not only one but 
several tissues are affected, it will have to be 
decided for each case whether only one or 
several of the nutritive compositions will 
have to be taken, and in what proportion. 

According to the system of the twelve tis- 
sues of the human body, the twelve nutritive 
compositions, the common name of which is 
"DECH-MANNA" Compositions, are the 
following: 

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Bloodwater-Pro&ucer. 
Lymphcell-Producer. 
Nervecell-Producer, 
Bonecell-Producer. 

Musclecell-Producer. 

Mucous membranecell 
-Producer. 

Tooth and Eye cell- 
Producer. 



No. 1. Serogen. 

No. 2. Lymphogen. 

No. 3. Neurogen. 

•No. 4. Osseogen. 

No. 5. Muscogen. 

No. 6. Mucogen. 

No. 7. Dento-Ophthogen 

No. 8. Capillogen. Haircell-Producer. 

No. 9. Dermogen. Skincell-Producer. 

No. 10. Gelatinogen. Gela^tigenouscell-Pro- 

No. 11. Cartilogen. Cartllagecell-Producer 

NO. 12. Eubiogen. HealtlvyjDodycell-Pro- 

In addition to these I use only a few 
specialties in certain cases of disease, viz.: 

A Oxygenator A radium emanation for the 

B. Eubiogen Liquid, Same as No. 12, but liquid 

C. Tonogen. A stimulating tonic. 

D. Tea. Diabetic, Dechmann. 

E. Tea. Laxagen, after Kneipp. 

F. Salve. Lenicet, after Dr. Reiss. 

G. Massage Emulsion, Dechmann. 

H. Propionic acid for steam atomizer. 
I. Oxygen Powder, after Hensel. 
J. Anti-Phosphate, Dechmann. 

(These specialties are used only in certain 
individual cases, according to my prescrip- 
tion). 

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PHYSICAL TREATMENT. 

As mentioned above, it is necessary to as- 
sist the process of normalizing the circulation 
and opening the body to the full benefit of 
the dietetic and nutritive salt treatment by 
applying a number of physical treatments, in 
each case of disease, which, for convenience 
sake, we have divided into ten different 
groups, some of which may have to be applied 
simultaneously in certain cases. They are as 
follows: 

23. Ablutions with vinegar and water 1 :2. 

24. Abdominal packs, vinegar and water 

1:2. 

25. Partial packs : 

a) Vinegar and water. 

b) Radium and salts. 

26. Partial packs : 

a) Arms. 

b) Legs. 

c) Neck. 

d) Shoulder. 

27. Three-quarter packs, vinegar and 

water. 

28. Gymnastics. 

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29. 


Massage. 


30. 


Breathing Exercises. 


31. 


Oxygenator Baths. 


32. 


Radium and Salt Baths 




a) Half. 




b) Whole. 



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From these groups a treatment is usually 
prescribed in each and every case of disease. 

The importance of ablutions and especially 
packs is so great that it is necessary to give 
further explanations concerning them: 

In a general way, it is necessary to apply 
a bath or an ablution (See 23 above) when the 
test with the thermometer, usually applied 
under the tongue, in the arm-pit or in the 
rectum, shows that the temperature of the 
patient exceeds 100 degrees. The patient 
grows restless, his skin feels dry and the 
pulse, which regularly is 70 to 80 with adults, 
90 to 100 with children, and about 130 with in- 
fants, shows an increased speed. As soon as 
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immediate cooling off of the body through a 
bath, an ablution or pack is necessary. Adults 
will always show the desire for such by in- 
stinct. Very sick people must receive baths 
or ablutions several times every day. 

Healthy people perspire as soon as they 
get too hot, that means, they cool off through 
the evaporation of the perspiration. It is 
supplemented by the bath and its cooling ef- 
fect. Balancing the higher temperature of 
the body and the lower temperature of the 
water, brings this about. The blood which 
flows towards the skin during the bath is 
cooled off, and returns in this condition to 
the interior of the body, only to be imme- 
diately replaced by other masses of blood. 
Since the blood circulates through the body 
about twice every minute, the cooling takes 
place from 20 to 24 times during a bath, last- 
ing from 10 to 12 minutes. This explains the 
soothing and cooling effect of the bath on 
the waves of blood and the nerves, which are 
aggravated by the increased temperature. 

At the same time the bath opens the pores, 
assists in the excretion of degenerated matter 
produced by the disease, and fosters the re- 
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It is a natural function of the body that 
an increased flow of the warming blood at all 
times goes to any spot which is touched by 
cold from the outside, so that these spots may 
not get too cold or, as is the common expres- 
sion, may not "catch"cold. This explains 
why the hands get red and hot after throwing 
snow-balls, the feet burn after a cold foot 
bath. As soon as the body, which is hot from 
fever, is put into the cool bath, the first ef- 
fect is that the blood-vessels of the skin con- 
tract under the cooling influence. The blood 
recedes. Soon, however, it streams with re- 
newed energy to the skin to defeat the cold. 
The first action, the recession of the blood, 
is followed by the reaction, increased liveli- 
ness in circulation towards the skin. This 
removes the pressure of the blood on the 
over-burdened inner organs, such as the brain, 
lungs and heart. The blood is diverted. 

For ablutions the water should be cool or 
lukewarm, the exact temperature to be de- 
termined by the strength of the patient. Some 
vinegar should be added to the water, taking 
two parts water and one part vinegar. 

To accustom children to the use of water 
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of motherhood. A healthy child should be 
washed once every day with water at 59 de- 
grees to 64 degrees. The best way to wash 
the child is to put two chairs in front of its 
bed. On one of them place the vessel with 
the necessary water, on the other place the 
child, after it has been disrobed in bed, in a 
standing position, so that it can be supported 
with the back of the chair. The ablution is 
performed by means of strong application 
with the hands, dipped into the water, and is 
repeated several times. Then the shirt is put 
on again, and the child is allowed to stay w r ell 
covered in bed for another 15 minutes. Chil- 
dren must become accustomed to gargling as 
early as possible, and to draw water up 
through the nose, or to remove it from the 
mouth through the nose. This is very valuable 
and facilitates the treatment of children in 
case of disease. 



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THE PACKS. 

The packs mentioned as physical treat- 
ment, under Nos. 24, 25, 26 and 27, are of the 
greatest importance, and in fact I never un- 
dertake the treatment of any disease whatso- 
ever without applying them as the most effect- 
ive means of restoring proper circulation of 
the blood and removing diseased matter from 
the body, which is the only way to bring about 
a real and definite cure. 

The effect of the pack is the cooling of 
the blood. The temperature of the pack is 
50 degrees and more below the temperature of 
the blood. In the first place this brings about 
quiet after unrest. Through the action of the 
body, which sends a large quantity of blood to 
the places which are touched by the cool com- 
presses, a certain surplus of heat is effected, 
which is transferred to the compresses and 
retained by them as moist warmth. Under 
this influence the blood-vessels of the skin 
extend and absorb blood more freely, which 
is thus diverted from the important inner or- 
gans to the skin. In all cases of fever the 
diseased matter is dissolved in the hot fever- 

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ish blood and circulates in and with it. The 
evaporation of the skin is increased, and with 
it the diseased matter is absorbed by the com- 
presses, which consequently diffuse an un- 
pleasant odor when removed, and when cleans- 
ed, give to the water a muddy appearance. 
Thus it may be observed to what extent the 
pack removes diseased matter from the body. 

Packs must be changed as soon as they 
cease to give comfort to the patient, and make 
him too warm. Highly flushed cheeks, in- 
creasing temperature and unrest are sure signs 
that the pack requires change, and in case of 
high fever this may happen after 20 to 30 
minutes. For short packs, such as are pre- 
scribed in all inflammatory and feverish dis- 
eases, water at from 59 degrees to 64 degrees 
is used. A piece of linen cloth is folded from 
4 to 8 times, wrung out, but not too much, and 
then covered only moderately with a woolen 
cloth. The stronger the patient and the high- 
er the fever, the thicker should the pack be. 
For infants a double linen strip is sufficient. 

The faster the fever and inflammation re- 
cede, the longer may the pack last, up to 
three hours. The convalescent will enjoy the 
moist warmth, under the influence of which 

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still existing diseased material is thorough- 
ly dissolved and completely excreted. The 
dissolving effect of packs of long duration is 
most noticeable in chronic diseases. 

Through the lasting effect of the moist 
warmth on the body or parts of the same, de- 
posited diseased matter is dissolved, shaken 
up, existing excoriations are disintegrated, di- 
rected back into the circulating blood, and 
thus excreted. The dissolving packs pf long 
duration must be applied somewhat thinner 
than the cooling ones (from 1 to 3 times) ; 
they must be wrung out more vigorously, and 
covered more closely. 

If a pack is applied for the sake of pre- 
vention of a disease, it may be put on in the 
evening and remain all night. In the begin- 
nig of fever, so long as it is moderate, the 
patient can stand the pack for from 2 to 2y' 2 
hours. 

Biological hygienic therapy rejects the 
external application of ice, for it causes se- 
vere congestion of the blood. Extensive ap- 
plication of the ice pouch causes more or less 
paralysis of the nerves, which in many cases 
prevents recovery and even causes chronic 
disease or fatal results. The biological hygie- 

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nic treatment desires to moderate inflamma- 
tion only to the degree that it should lose its 
dangerous character, but it leaves to the body 
its power to remove, through the process of 
inflammation, alien and diseased matter, and 
to absorb and gradually carry away the pro- 
ducts of inflammation through the blood cur- 
rent. Paralysis of the vocal cords, of the 
muscles of the eye, of the nerves of hearing, 
the exudations from the nose and eyes after 
diphtheria, meningitis and scarlet fever, ad- 
hesions, suppurations after pneumonia and 
other inflammatory diseases, are often the 
consequences of the use of ice, because the pro- 
ducts of inflammation are not absorbed, and 
the ice paralyzes the neighbouring nerves. In- 
flammations, which are suppressed by medi- 
cine or ice, must renew themselves, since the 
causes, the alien matter (auto toxins), as well 
as the products of inflammation remain in the 
body and are not thoroughly excreted. To 
apply water, on the contrary, quickly removes 
not only the inflammation, but its causes and 
eventual consequences. The organs which 
have been inflamed do not show any further 
inclination to renewed inflammations. In no 
case will a chronic ailment be the consequence 

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of an acute disease, provided the same was 
treated in a natural way, according to the 
principles of biological hygienic treatment. 

In order to bring about the complete ex- 
cretion of all autotoxins and, in case of in- 
flammation, the complete absorption of all 
products of the same, it is necessary to con- 
tinue the lengthy packs also during the period 
of convalescence, and not to stop immediate- 
ly as soon as the fever and inflammation have 
somewhat disappeared. This is a mistake 
which is frequently committed, and the fault 
is then laid to the biological hygienic system. 
Any relapse or succeeding illness will be 
avoided by continuing the packs for four to 
six weeks after a certain disease has been 
cured, applying them during the night and 
in the beginning also during the day-time, 
from two to three hours. 

While most people understand the cooling 
effect of a pack, the important diverting, dis- 
solving and excreting effect is rarely under- 
stood. Few people understand why ablutions, 
abdominal and leg packs are prescribed in 
case of inflammation of the eyes ; why, in 
case of ulcers, besides compresses on the 
same, nightly abdominal packs and ablutions 

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in the morning, are considered indispensable; 
and why, in case of inflammation of one leg, 
the healthy leg is also subjected to a pack. And 
still it ought to be understood so easily. In 
limiting packs, in case of inflammation, to 
the inflamed part only, the blood current is 
directed mainly to the one place, and the ex- 
cretion of autotoxins from the body would 
only occur in the inflamed place. The blood 
would carry all diseased matter principally 
to the diseased spot and deposit it there. The 
inflamed organ would thus be burdened with 
work which it simply would not be able to 
perform. The effect must be far more sure 
and rapid, in case the pressure of blood into 
the diseased part is moderated, if the disso- 
lution and excretion of the matter that causes 
the disease, takes place, not in one spot only, 
but is distributed over the entire body. If the 
entire skin is put into action, the entire body 
participates in the healing process. The bio- 
logical hygienic-dietetic treatment is, there- 
fore, not satisfied to treat the one diseased 
organ only. In all diseases the co-operation 
of the entire body, that is, a general treat- 
ment, remains the main issue of the biological, 
hygienic therapy. It regards the human body, 

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as often stated previously, as a unit, and 
knows neither specialist nor special cures. 
Hence the key to its marvelous success. 



IMPORTANT GENERAL ADVICE. 

For moist packs take coarse, previously 
used and loosely woven linen, which readily 
absorbs water and clings closely to the body. 
After each pack the linen must be washed 
well and the woolen material must be aired. 
From time to time the linen must be boiled 
and the woolen cloth cleaned, chemically, if 
possible. Raw silk is an excellent substitute 
for linen. It clings well to the body, does not 
cause any discomfort, and has an excellent ab- 
sorbing quality for water and other sub- 
stances. 

The proper application of the pack is of 
course of great importance. Adults can easily 
apply many of the packs without assistance, 
but generally a third person is necessary 
in the case of children or patients. It is con- 
sequently advisable for every mother to be- 
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of applying packs, and she should always have 
the necessary material on hand. It should 
be cut in the proper size, and there should be 
at least a duplicate of each piece for the neces- 
sary changes. The approximate measure- 
ments for adults are : 

Width Length 

Neck pack 5" 40" to 60" 

Shoulder pack , 10" 40" 

Abdominal pack 28" 40" to 60" 

Breast or stomach pack 16" 52" to 60" 

"T" pack 16" 52" to 60" 

Cross piece alone 5" 24" 

The shawl 32" to 40" 32" to 40" 

Scotch pack (undivided) 16" 80" to 100" 

Same for children 10" to 16" 60" to 80" 

Calf pack 24" 26" 

Leg pack 24" 30" 

Three-quarter pack 56" 52" to 60" 

Whole pack ,. 68" 80" 

The measurements for children are accordingly 
shorter and narrower. 



As to the application of packs, a mother 
can learn a great deal by experimenting on 
her own body. Packs at night are by no 
means detrimental to adults, and the applica- 
tion of a regular abdominal pack, a three- 
quarter pack, and a whole pack once a week 
or once every two weeks is decidedly advan- 
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should be occasionally tried on the body of 
children with dry linen so that in case of 
disease the mother will be a well trained 
nurse, at least in this respect. 

To go about the application of the pack 
quietly and without much talking is very 
comforting to the patient, who usually grows 
excited during the procedure. In case of 
acute feverish disease the packs and the 
changes must be applied very quickly, so 
that the patient will not catch cold. While, as 
a rule, the patient should not be disturbed in 
a quiet sleep, unconsciousness or delirium 
must not prevent change of the pack. It 
should be applied so as not to cause any 
creases which may hurt the patient. 

The temperature of the water used for 
packs should be as follows : for the cooling 
packs, 59 degrees to 64 degrees; for dis- 
solving packs, 64 degrees to 71 degrees. 
The higher temperature is used in the treat- 
ment of infants, weak nerves and anemic per- 
sons. In chronic diseases a gradual return to 
a lower temperature by about 2y 2 degrees per 
week is advisable. 

No packs or compresses should be put on 
cold parts of the body. In such cases the 

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parts in question must first be warmed 
through moist heat. 

The linen should be wrung out less for 
short cooling compresses than for dissolving 
packs of longer duration. Cooling compresses 
must be changed as soon as the patient indi- 
cates that he feels aggravated by the heat. 
As a general rule, packs on the legs may be 
left on feverish patients twice as long as packs 
on the upper parts of the body. No fever be- 
ing evident, the abdominal pack may be chang- 
ed after about 2y 2 hours, the leg pack after 5 
hours, and possibly not at all during the night. 
Packs should be renewed according to the re- 
quirements of the individual patient, not in 
accordance with fixed rules. 

Great care must be exercised to fasten the 
packs well and tightly. This is usually done 
with hairpins or safety pins. Hairpins should 
be stuck into the material used as cov- 
ering, in the direction away from the person 
fastening the pack, and should then be bent 
backwards. Safety pins should have a guard- 
ed tip, and should be fastened at right angles 
to the length of the material. 

When changing the pack on feverish peo- 
ple that are to receive an ablution or a bath 

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two or three times a day, all pins must tvs 
loosened under the bed-covers so that the 
pack may be removed quickly. If ablutions 
only are given, the pack is removed gradually 
as soon as the respective part of the body is 
to be washed. When the fever is moderate, 
there should be an ablution in the morning 
and in the evening, or a bath in the morning 
and an ablution in the evening. When packs 
are applied only at night, patients require 
only one ablution in the morning. If the packs 
are not renewed, an ablution must follow the 
removal. This refreshes and strengthens the 
skin, closes the wide open pores and prevents 
taking cold. Dissolving packs, if annoying at 
night, may be removed under the bedcovers 
without an ablution. If the pack is changed 
without intervening ablution, the new pack 
must be ready to be applied before the old, 
hot one, is taken off. While in a pack, the 
patient should not leave his bed, not even for 
the purpose of urinating or for stool. 



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GENERAL RULES. 

The following general rules must be ap- 
plied in connection with the directions given 
below for packs during different diseases. 

In case of inflammation, the inflamed spot 
is cooled off by local compresses, and divert- 
ing packs of longer duration are applied on 
other parts of the body. For instance, in case 
of inflammation of the brain or tonsils, the 
first step is to cool off the blood which flows 
to the neck and head by short-time compres- 
ses on the neck and on the cervix. At the 
same time one must try to divert it through 
lengthier packs on the abdomen, the legs and 
the wrists, and thereby prevent a further de- 
livery of diseased matter to the centre of in- 
flammation. The solution and excretion of 
diseased matter from other points than the 
inflamed spots will thereby be effected, and 
these will be unburdened and calmed ac- 
cordingly. In case of inflammation of the 
organs of the breast (lungs, heart), the blood 
is diverted to the abdomen, legs and lower 
arms through long-time packs, and the upper 
parts of the breast are cooled with short com- 

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presses. If the inflammation has its seat in 
the abdomen, this must be cooled off, while 
the diversion with longer-time packs is made 
to the legs and arms. Ulcers are treated by 
applying extremely hot compresses, which are 
frequently changed, and the surrounding 
parts are cooled off and diversion is effected 
through nightly packs on the abdomen and 
on the legs. The hot compresses dissolve the 
diseased matter, so that the ulcer opens. 
Thereupon cool compresses of 71 degrees to 
64 degrees are applied and allowed to remain 
for 2j4 to 3 hours, which will effect quick 
healing without the necessity of an operation. 
The main rule is never to divert towards 
a vital organ of the body, such as the lungs 
or heart; thus, in case of inflammation of the 
head, diversion must be attempted, not to the 
breast, but to the arms and legs. 



Abdominal Pack (24) 

The abdominal pack should be applied on 
infants and children whenever they show signs 
of illness in any way, and naturally in cases 

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of summer complaint, measles, scarlet fever, 
diphtheria, whooping cough, pneumonia, ty- 
phoid fever, in which cases a pack should be 
applied during the entire course of the illness 
with slight intermissions only. As in acute 
diseases, it is also applied in chronic ones. 
(See descriptions below). Its early applica- 
tion will often serve to prevent serious sick- 
ness. 

The abdominal pack reaches from the arm- 
pits to the hips. It is made from a clean piece 
of woolen cloth (double flannel), the width of 
which must cover the space from the arm-pits 
to the hips, while its length must be so that 
it can be placed all around the abdomen and 
folded over in front. Furthermore, there are 
necessary two or three coarse towels, but not 
Turkish, that have been laundered frequently, 
or suitable pieces of old linen, and finally a 
few pointed short hairpins or safety pins. 
Sometimes the pack is to be 'laid narrow, so 
that it only covers the stomach or the belly 
(7 to 8 inches); the woolen part must be 
shaped accordingly. For children a towel will, 
as a rule, be sufficient; for infants, a properly 
folded piece of old linen. The linen as well 
as the woolen material must be properly fold- 

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ed before the pack is made, and must be 
measured, so that the patient need not wait 
too long while the pack is placed on the body. 




The above cut shows how to apply the ab- 
dominal pack on an adult patient. The towel 
or linen is dipped into water (two parts of 
water with one part of vinegar) at 64 degrees 
to 75 degrees, well wrung out, and is placed 
on the woolen material in such a way that the 
latter extends about 2 to 3 inches on the upper 
and lower edge. The pack is now placed 
around the back of the patient, who sits in 
bed or is held in position by a second assist- 
ing person. The patient's shirt is lifted and 
he is laid down on the moist linen, which is 
then quickly raised on both sides and folded 

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over the abdomen. The same is done with the 
woolen material, which is then fastened tight- 
ly in the middle, the upper and lower corners 
with three pins. Then the shirt is pulled down 
and the patient is carefully covered. 

In many individual cases it is advisable to 
divide the pack into a voluminous back com- 
press and one on the front of the abdomen. In 
such cases the woolen cloth, which is used for 
the abdominal pack, is placed underneath the 
patient as above. A towel is folded 6 to 8 
times, so that it will grow warm slowly and 
thus may remain en the body for a longer time, 
and placed under the back of the patient. Then 
two properly folded towels, which are not 
wrung out very thoroughly, are put on the 
abdomen in the front, and tucked down a little 
on both sides. The woolen cloth is thereupon 
fixed as before, so as to keep together the 
divided pack, just as in other cases it does the 
undivided pack. In these cases the back com- 
press only needs to be changed every 2 to 3 
hours, even in case of severe fever. The front 
towels may be changed several times in the 
meantime. Since this system permits the 
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the patient and making him sit up too often, it 
is very desirable in cases of intense illness. 
The undivided pack is often very uncom- 
fortable for patients suffering from respira- 
tory diseases. It is better to treat very ex- 
citable patients with front compresses only. 

When the stomach pack only is prescribed 
in catarrhal and nervous stomach or liver 
diseases, and which may be worn during the 
night as well as during the daytime, a long 
wide mesh shawl, with a ribbon 7 to 8 inches in 
width at each end, is most advisable, as it will 
reach around the body 4 or 5 times. In order 
to shut out the air as much as possible, the 
moist compress is first applied, and then the 
shawl is placed around the body in such a way 
that each succeeding turn covers the previous 
one to about one-half. 



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The Cross Pack (25) 

This is applied in case of men's diseases 
and women's diseases of the sexual organs. 
To the woolen material and the linen crash of 

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the abdominal pack, another piece, about half 
as long and about 7 inches wide, is sewed or 
pinned before application, in the form of a T. 



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Before the two ends of the abdominal pack 
are folded over on the front of the abdomen, 
the narrower piece is drawn up between the 
legs from behind, so that the end of it can be 
fastened to the two sides of the abdominal 
part of the pack that are folded over in front. 

As shown above, the abdominal pack must 
reach down as far as possible, and if a patient 
is unable to stand both packs, the moist part of 
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the regular-pack over the sexual organs and 
the woolen part over the abdomen is applied. 
In case the cross piece is for the purpose of 
cooling and contracting, it must be frequently 
renewed. Women should accompany the ab- 
lutions mornings and evenings with injections 
of lukewarm water at 71 degrees to 82 de- 
grees, and men should make ablutions of the 
sexual parts 5 to 6 times a day with water at 
64 degrees to 71 degrees. The cross pack 
has the advantage of gradually putting back 
into normal position, the female organs, if they 
are in any way misplaced. These packs will 
help to cure cases of leukorrhoea and gonorr- 
hoea, locally too, without operations or the 
application of poisons, especially if applied at 
an early stage of the respective disease. 



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Leg Packs (26) 

These are applied in a similar way as the 
abdominal pack. The woolen piece of cloth 
is fitted to the leg from the middle of the 
thigh to the ankle, so as to cover the leg com- 
pletely. A towel or linen is doubled and 

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moistened, and then placed in such a way that 
the woolen material extends about two inches 
on the upper and two inches on the lower edge 
of the towel. The two pieces are laid simul- 
taneously under one of the patient's legs, the 
towel turned up from both sides and the wool- 
en piece likewise, and the latter fastened with 
either three pins or with a ribbon. The other 
leg is packed in the same way, each one separ- 
ately. 

In the same way partial packs of the calves 
or the feet only are applied. In all of these 
cases it is more expedient and comfortable to 
use knit packs. Cotton stockings of suitable 
length from which the foot has been removed, 

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should take the place of the linen or towel in 
the packs for the entire leg or the calf. They 
are moistened and covered with woolen stock- 
ings of corresponding length, extending on 
both ends and minus the foot part. The foot 
parts are to be used only for foot packs in an 
analogous way. The woolen stocking should 
be as loose and comfortable as possible. In 
case of bent legs (through gout or otherwise), 
the moistened linen is wrapped around the 
leg like a bandage, and then a woolen bandage 
is wound around over it. In case of severe 
fever the wrists are also packed, no woolen 
cover, however, being necessary in this case. 

The leg pack has, in the first place, a most 
diverting and consequently a calming effect. 
It is, therefore, of the highest value, next to 
the abdominal, cross, neck and shoulder packs, 
in all feverish and especially all chronic dis- 
eases where congestions in the head and 
breast, with their consequences of dizziness, 
headache, insomnia, pains in the lungs and 
heart, must be removed. Besides, in chronic 
cases, they assist in the effects of the ab- 
dominal pack. 

Foot packs, that is, wet stockings, have a 
very favorable action against headache, tooth- 

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ache and earache, and are best applied during 
the night. If they excite the patient too much, 
they may easily be taken off during the night; 
otherwise they should be followed by a cold 
ablution of the feet in the morning. Nervous 
people are usually unable to stand the wet 
stockings, which only work well if the feet 
become warm quickly, which, as a rule, is not 
the case in feverish illnesses. People who suf- 
fer from cold feet should take a steam foot 
bath before applying cold foot packs. 

Since the legs and the feet develop less 
heat than the abdomen, leg and foot packs do 
not require as thick material as abdominal 
packs, and are changed less frequently. They 
are best applied whtn the fever is at its 
height, in the late afternoon and at night. In 
case leg packs are continued for a long while, 
the legs show decreasing inclination to grow 
sufficiently warm. Whenever this occurs, 
leg packs must be discontinued, or the packed 
legs must be warmed in a different way. 

The diverting wrist packs are of special 
value, especially in all acute diseases of the 
lungs (inflammations, bleedings, hemorr- 
hages) and the heart. 

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Neck Pack (26) 

It is made by folding a linen four- 
fold, long enough to reach twice around the 
neck. It is dipped into water at from 59 de- 
grees to 64 degrees. Then it is placed around 
the neck and a woolen shawl wound around 
over it, covering well the moist linen. The 
neck pack has its effect on the inside of the 
neck in case of tonsilitis, croup, etc. 

If stiffness of the neck, headache or similar 
pains are felt after its use, the moist linen 
should not cover the back part of the neck but 
only the front and sides. 

Where the effect is to be extended to the 
trachea and its branches, the bronchia and the 
tips of the lungs, especially in the case of 
cough, it is still better to apply the 



Shoulder Pack (26) 

A short towel is folded into a strip of 
about a hand's width, extending from one of 
the nipples across the opposite shoulder, 
around the neck, to the other nipple. A wooi- 



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en shawl, fastened together with a pin, must 
cover the moist towel completely. The 
shoulder pack is always applied together with 




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the abdominal pack. It is put on first, and 
the two ends are pulled under the abdominal 
pack, and then fastened. 



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The Scotch Pack (26) 

The Scotch pack is of the greatest ad- 
vantage in all diseases of the trachea and the 
lungs, also in case of whooping cough. Two 
towels are sewed together lengthwise, and as 
a moist pack are placed over the breast of the 
patient so that the seam will be in the center. 
The ends are crossed over the back, one end is 
brought forward over the left and one over 
the right shoulder, then the ends are crossed 
once more and tucked under. A woolen shawl 
is placed on top of the moist towels in the 
same way, so that it completely covers the 
moist pack. The ends are tucked under the 
pack in front. The pack is fastened with 
safety pins where the ends cross. 

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The Divided Scotch Pack (26) 

This is still better than the above since it 
may be applied without forming creases, and 
may be changed more frequently in regard to 
its upper part, for the purposes of cooling, 
than the undivided pack. It is used together 





with the abdominal pack. Instead of using 
one strip 4 to 6 inches wide, folded 4 to 6 
times, as for the shoulder pack, two of them 
are taken. One strip is put across each shoul- 
der, and then they are crossed on the breast 
as well as on the back. The woolen strips 

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used for covering are of course wider and of 
double thickness. The ends pf the two strips 
are drawn underneath the abdominal pack, 
and held by it, and the two shoulder packs 
may be changed as often as necessary for 
cooling purposes without necessitating a si- 
multaneous change of the abdominal pack. 



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The Shawl (26) 

(Similar application as Kneipp's Shawl). 

A large square piece of crash from 35" to 
40" is folded into a triangle, dipped into 
water at 59 degrees to 64 degrees, and after 
wrung out, is applied with the diagonal line 
around the neck. The upper part of the back, 
the cervix, the neck, the shoulders and the 
upper parts of the breast are thus covered. A 
woolen wrap, the ends of which are fastened 
together on the back with pins, or tied to- 
gether, will cover the whole pack tightly. 

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This pack must be changed if the patient 
becomes too hot (after y 2 to 2 hours), other- 
wise it may stay on all night. In case of fever- 
ish catarrh it is used together with the three- 
quarter pack. 

Among other things the "shawl" causes 
the cooling of the blood which streams to the 
head. Thus its effect in case of congestions 
and brain diseases is explained. Neck and 
shoulder packs, Scotch pack and shawl must 
always be used in connection with diverting leg, 
calf or foot packs. 



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The Three-Quarter Pack (27) 

Next to the abdominal pack the three- 
quarter pack is one of the best applications, 
especially for children. 

A woolen piece of cloth, a half or single 
blanket, as long as the patient and suffi- 
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placed on the bed in such a way that its 
upper edge reaches to where the arm-pits of 
the patient usually lie. A bedspread of about 
the same size as the woolen blanket is dipped 
into cool water and wrung out well, and 
placed on the woolen blanket in such a way 
that the upper edge of the latter protrudes 
somewhat. The patient is now laid on the 
bedspread so that it reaches up to his arm- 
pits. The moist spread is then turned up on 
both sides to cover the patient. Part of it 
is tucked between his legs, and the protrud- 
ing lower end is laid on or between his feet. 
Thus the body, from the arms down, is com- 
pletely wrapped in the wet spread, and the 
woolen blanket is applied over it in the same 
way, and then fastened with some pins. The 
patient's shirt is then drawn down. The 
head, the neck, the uppermost part of the 
breast and back are not packed. Another 
blanket is placed over the patient and well 
fastened on all sides. A pillow must be 
placed between his feet and the lower edge 
of the bed. To avoid cold feet the wet 
spread should reach only to the ankles, and 
the feet are covered with the woolen blanket, 
or a hot bottle is placed near them. 

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The three-quarter pack is very valuable 
in feverish diseases, since it takes effect on 
so large an area of the skin. It is also very 
helpful in case of meningitis and other in- 
flammations. It should, however, not be ap- 
plied by a layman, except with the greatest 
caution. The inflamed parts must be covered 
with compresses, as in case of pneumonia 
and inflammation of the heart. If three- 
quarter packs excite children too much, they 
must be replaced by abdominal and leg 
packs. 

The patient should stay in the pack as 
long as he does not grow too hot or restless. 
This may occur after 20 to 30 minutes, in 
case of severe fever; otherwise, the pack may 
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useful with children when their actions indi- 
cate that a disease is trying to break out. In 
many cases it will develop and cure the dis- 
ease, such as measles, if it is properly ap- 
plied for 2 to 2y 2 hours, and finished with a 
bath at 77 or an ablution at 64 degrees. When 
fever and inflammation begin to slacken, and 
during convalescence, three-quarter or whole 
packs applied daily or every second day, fin- 
ishing with an ablution, are very useful for 
the purpose of solution and excretion. In 
such cases the moist heat should be con- 
served through additional blankets or com- 
forters, so that the body really smothers. 



The Half Pack (25) 

The half pack is applied just like the 
three-quarter pack with the exception that it 
reaches only from the arm-pits to the knees. 
It is especially necessary to close it carefully 
around the legs. The half pack, allowing the 
body more freedom, may be kept on all night. 
It is most effective on the thighs in case of 
aching thighs (sciatica). It is, however, also 
applied in case of febrile diseases. 

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The Whole Pack. 

This is applied in nearly the same way as 
the three-quarter pack, but includes also the 
arms, breast and neck. 







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In this case the blanket must reach to 
about the middle of the patient's head. On 
top of the moist spread a towel is laid, 
which is first placed around the abdomen. 
The patient's arms must be somewhat bent, so 
that they will not oppress the breast too 
much when packed with it. Otherwise the 
arms are to be treated just as the legs, so 
that the moist spread touches them every- 

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where. In case of the whole pack, when it 
is impossible to fasten the woolen blanket at 
the neck with safety pins, it is necessary to 
tuck it under both shoulders as tightly as 
possible. The woolen blanket must be 




drawn tightly over the shoulders and the 
ends tucked under the opposite shoulder. It 
must exceed the length of the patient by 18 
inches. In case one blanket is not large 
enough, two must be used, one of which may 
be 6 inches longer than the other. Additional 
blankets, pillows and comforters may be 
used in case of high fever. The advice given 
above in regard to the differences in packs, 
depending on their various purposes of cool- 

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ing, diverting, calming or dissolving, must 
also guide in this case as to the extra amount 
of covering. The access to fresh air at the 
neck and legs, however, must always be 
tightly closed. An ablution or a bath must 
follow each whole pack. If properly applied, 
the whole pack will be of the greatest benefit 
in all febrile and chronic diseases. Inflam- 
mations require partial packs, while at the 
same time dissolving or diverting packs of 
longer duration are applied to the parts of 
the body which are not inflamed. 



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SMALL COMPRESSES. 

Small compresses may be applied to each 
part of the body. They cool off ulcers and 
slight inflammations; they dissolve in case 
of rheumatism or gout of long standing. A 
piece of linen of good size, not a small rag, 
folded six to eight times, is useful in case 
of toothache or earache. The compress must 
be covered with a woolen cloth and fastened 
as well as possible. Dissolving compresses 

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must he covered more thickly than cooling 
ones. Special compresses are sometimes 
needed on the head and on the heart and 
around the neck to prevent congestions. They 
are covered only slightly, and like all cooling 
compresses, are changed as soon as they 
become hot. 



GYMNASTICS, MASSAGE AND 

BREATHING EXERCISES. 

(28, 29, 30) 

The three items under "Physical Treat- 
ment," 28. Gymnastics, 29. Massage and 30. 
Breathing Exercises, in this connection re- 
quire only a few explanatory remarks. Their 
common object is, by means of external me- 
chanical aid, to stimulate circulation of the 
blood which is undergoing the process of re- 
generation. They remove obstacles to cir- 
culation and produce movements and reac- 
tions. While in the case of massage this ex- 
ternal aid must, as a rule, be given by a 
third person in order to be effective, gymnas- 
tics and breathing exercises are actions of 
the patient himself. All of them, however, 

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have the common attribute that in order to 
be useful they must be strictly individual. 
The German proverb that "No one thing is 
good for everybody/' is fittingly applied in 
this case. There are few things that are so 
much abused as this rule in gymnastics. I 
cannot urge strongly enongh to be very cau- 
tious and careful before trying to adopt the 
advice given in numerous books and pamph- 
lets in regard to such exercises. While much 
of what is contained in them may be good 
and true, the governing question as to what 
is suitable in an individual case, can obviously 
not be determined by any such impersonal 
advice. It is the right and the duty of the 
attending physician to prescribe exclusively, 
whether, to what extent, and in what form 
these exercises should be applied in each 
individual case. 

This is true of gymnastics even when 
practised by so-called healthy people. By 
executing certain of the more complicated 
movements, such as the physical instructor 
in a gymnasium may direct his large classes 
to do, they may develop diseases and weaken 
certain organs, being entirely unaware of 
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easy prey to diseases. It will require the 
closest attention of the teacher to what is 
called gymnastics on apparatus, to determine 
which exercises he may compel certain pu- 
pils to try without impairing their health. In 
case gymnastics or breathing exercises are 
prescribed as part of a treatment they are to 
be executed strictly according to the order of 
the attending hygienic-dietetic physician. 

One of the great principles never to be 
overlooked in gymnastics is, that in order to 
have the desired effect they must be carried 
out with the greatest regularity. Another 
rule that must never be overlooked is that 
of passing gradually from the easy, simple 
movements to the harder and more compli : 
cated ones. Gymnastics require much more 
mental energy than is usually thought. This 
is one of their great advantages. At the same 
time the lack of this energy very often leads 
to self-deceit, such as omitting the prescribed 
number, order and gradation of the move- 
ments or changing them to suit individual 
preferences. The punishment for this will 
never be lacking. Not only will the desired 
effect be wanting, but other effects, which 
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be the result, if there is any inattention to 
this important rule. 

As to massage, this requires knowledge of 
anatomy in general, and of the anatomy of 
the individual to be treated, in particular. 
Only in this way can the desired effect be 
produced on certain muscles and nerves, 
with the further consequence that their move- 
ments promote the correct and health-giving 
circulation of the blood. Here again the 
governing factor must be the prescription 
of the hygienic-dietetic physician who has 
studied the individual case and knows the 
effect he wishes to produce by means of mas- 
sage, and how to procure the same. General 
books on massage, its general practice in 
bath-houses by male or female practitioners, 
without knowledge of the particular case, will 
really accomplish nothing. 



ELECTRIC VIBRATORS. 

In certain cases, and where it is not a ques- 
tion of general massage, the patient will be 
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to the physician's prescription. In this con- 
nection he will find an electric vibrator of 
valuable assistance. It will allow him to ex- 
tend the area of the self-applied massage, but 
again it will be useful only in case the appli- 
cation is prescribed by the attending physi- 
cian, and is carried out in the strictest ac- 
cordance with his instructions. 



OXYGENATOR, RADIUM AND SALT 
BATHS (31,32) 

Since the discovery of radio-activity and 
the many effects which the presence of radi- 
um in certain waters and minerals produces 
on the human body, it has been the special 
task of German research work and the Ger- 
man Government to find the means of giving 
humanity in general the benefit of this im- 
portant discovery. After two years of care- 
ful investigation the German Government 
has been able to guarantee that the radium 
preparation, called oxygenator, possesses the 
quality of oxidizing about five times as 
quickly as any other known substance, and 
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cells of the human body accordingly. This 
material in itself, as well as other combina- 
tions of radio products and salts are used by 
me exclusively, and are prescribed to patients 
for half or whole baths, as the case may re- 
quire. They are of the greatest assistance 
in carrying out the course of treatment in 
each individual case. What in former times 
could be effected only through expensive 
trips to the few famous healing springs of 
the world, can now be accomplished in the 
comfort of the home or the sanatorium. But 
these measures, too, should be followed only 
in strict accordance with the physician's or- 
ders, bearing in mind that there can be "too 
much" even in a matter of such unusually 
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THE DISEASES TO BE TREATED AND 

THE APPLICATION OF THE 

METHOD. 

Having given, in the foregoing para- 
graphs, a brief description of the methods of 
healing which I apply, I am now going 
to give a short explanation of the different 
methods to be applied in treating various 
diseases, all of which have been explained as 
degenerations of the twelve tissues of the 
body in previous paragraphs. This will serve 
to help patients in understanding more clearly 
the prescriptions given them for their indivi- 
dual cases. Once more I warn every one not 
to commit the mistake of believing that a layman 
can cure his own disease by even the most care- 
ful study of a book such as this is. But to the 
patient, who has been led by the physician in- 
to the proper path to health, it will, as is 
its purpose, give such instructions as will 
enable him to see his condition plainly. 
He zvill then be able to follow the instructions 
of the physician, and — what is of greatest im- 
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to his own observations of his condition and the 
changes brought about by the treament. 

There is another point that we wish to 
mention right here in the beginning. Dis- 
ease, although reduced to its last analysis in 
this system, is never so simple that it can t>e 
determined as the degeneration of one tissue 
exclusively. The unity of the body, as indi- 
cated above, the close connection of the 
various tissues, and the gradual transition 
from one into another, make it impossible to 
draw the lines as sharply and distinctly as 
between chemical elements. For the sake of 
classification we make the degeneration of a 
certain tissue the distinguishing element be- 
tween various diseases. Let us not forget, 
however, that this does not mean more than 
the degeneration of the main tissue which is 
affected by this particular disease, while that 
same disease is also characterized by simul- 
taneous degeneration of one or more of the 
other tissues, only to a lesser degree. It is, 
therefore, not inconsistent if, in giving the 
more detailed description of a disease, several 
tissues are mentioned as being degenerated, 
and not only the one tissue from the degenera- 
tion of which the class derives its name. 

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L DEGENERATION OF THE SERO 
TISSUE. 

Anemia, Chlorosis, Pernicious Anemia. 

A. Scrofulosis. B. Tuberculosis. 

C. Syphilis. D. Cancer. 

To many people who are not familiar 
with the results of modern studies, and even 
to a good many physicians of the old- 
fashioned school of medicine, the family of 
diseases as enumerated above, will look 
somewhat queer. It comprises the most dis- 
astrous plagues of mankind, for which cures 
have so frantically been sought with such a 
lack of results. It thus contains one of the 
greatest revelations of the biological methoj 
of studying and, accordingly, healing dis- 
eases. The common cause of these mani- 
festly so different constitutional diseases is 
the same. That this was not recognized long 
ago is the reason they have been claimed in- 
curable by so many physicians. Whatever 
cure the old school, by poisoning symptoms 
to make them disappear, could and can pro- 
vide, established only a semblance of cure, 
until the biological study led to the recogni- 
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these constitutional diseases are essentially 
blood defects and degenerations, result- 
ing in the destruction of the body in general, 
the necessary and logical consequence of an 
imperfect condition of the blood. 

So there is a ray of hope for humanity 
breaking through the night of despair, that 
its worst foes can be made to disappear in 
due time by being attacked at their common 
root. Not the knife of the surgeon, not the 
poison of the physician of the old school, but 
simply harmonizing the individual life with 
the laws of nature, will eradicate the causes. 
The tremendous importance of the subject, the 
wide field to be covered, makes it wellnigh 
impossible to treat the matter within this 
pamphlet as extensively as it should be treat- 
ed. A large part of my book, "Dare To Be 
Healthy/' of which this is but an abstract, 
deals with this topic. There the reader will 
find the most interesting details in regard to 
the connection between these widespread dis- 
eases. Their nature as blood-diseases carries 
with it the fact that they are preeminently 
hereditary, and thus have spread for many 
generations, so that today there is only a min- 
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them are missing. So the predisposition for 
their renewal is given with the continuity of 
environment, the one point, at which, at least 
in the case of the so-called white plague, 
tuberculosis, an attack has been made. The 
development towards the eradication of these 
evils has been handicapped by the overwhelming 
importance science has given to the theory of the 
bacillus as the incentive element of disease, while 
it is only a product of the same. 

The serum and anti-toxin therapy, which in 
its fight against the bacillus, lost sight of the first 
task of medicine, that of fighting the disease, was 
the logical consequence thereof. 

The blood liquid, which consists of the 
serum and red and white blood corpuscles, and 
is the carrier of the lymph to such parts of the 
body that are not fed directly by the lym- 
phatic vessels, such as the nerves, must have a 
well defined chemical composition in order to 
fulfil its task. What we call deficiency of 
blood is, with the exception of traumatically 
inflicted losses of normal quantity, to a great 
extent a deficiency in quality. This consists 
in the chemical composition and the propor- 
tion of nutritive salts in the serum, or in the 
relation and quality of the oxygen carriers, 

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that is, the red corpuscles and white cor- 
puscles, whose task it is to remove foreign and 
disturbing elements from the blood. It is ob- 
vious that deficiency in these elements may 
be of infinite variety and of the most far 
reaching consequence for the various tissues 
of the body, which receive their nurture there- 
from. 

According to the nature of the effects 
which this variety in blood deficiency (dyse- 
mia) produces, we distinguish certain groups 
of destructions in the body, for which names 
were established at a time when the unity of 
these diseases had not yet been recognized. 
Thus where dysemia produces only general 
debility, we call it anemia, which may gradu- 
ally become destructive and develop into 
"pernicious" anemia. When it affects girls 
with all kinds of disturbances in menstrua- 
tion, perverting their appetite and causing a 
greenish color of the skin, it is called "chloro- 
sis." If the symptoms are the destruction of 
the lymphatic glands, so often noticed in chil- 
dren recognized as being hereditarily affect- 
ed, we speak of "Scrofulosis." When errone- 
ous composition of the blood, prompted by 
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ment, causes destruction of the lungs or of 
certain bones or of other tissues, the name 
"tuberculosis" indicates that the decaying 
condition of the affected tissues results in 
producing numerous tubercle bacilli. In the 
many cases in which the destruction is even 
more widespread, attacking the skin, bones, 
brain and other tissues or organs, and where 
the decomposing poison, if it was not here- 
ditary, has entered the blood by way of sexual 
intercourse, the ominous word "syphilis" in- 
dicates the resulting blood disease. When the 
weakened tissues, which are not sufficiently 
fed with the elements they need for their 
normal existence, cannot resist the developing 
power of the phosphates prevalent in the 
blood, the much dreaded malign "cancer 
growths" appear. 

The destructions wrought by such blood, 
by dysemia in these various forms, cannot be 
the object of description in this brief abstract. 
They can all be reduced, made to stop and 
forced to give place to healthy regeneration 
by the hygienic-dietetic healing system. In 
each case the possibility of cure will depend 
entirely on the degree of decomposition which 
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ditary, it is obviously harder to fight, and a 
long regenerative treatment may be foreseen. 
If the trouble is attacked in an early stage, 
complete restoration to health is possible in 
a comparatively short period. The most care- 
ful and thorough investigation by the physi- 
cian must precede any treatment. It is his 
task to prescribe the treatment accordingly, 
and this will change with development of the 
disease and bring about its gradual disappear- 
ance. The simultaneous direct and indirect 
affection of various tissues, especially of the 
lymph, will necessitate more complicated ap- 
plications of the various nutritive composi- 
tions. 



Therapy. 

Diet: L For the Anemic. 

All that grows in the sunshine makes blood. There- 
fore, the food of an anemic person should consist main- 
ly of articles of diet which grow above the surface, such 
as green vegetables, fresh greens, fruit, berries. Since 
the blood has already grown very thin, as little fluid 
as possible should be taken, and for this reason the 
boasted milk cures are far from advisable. If all hot 
seasoning is avoided and little salt and sugar are used, 
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alcoholic drinks are to be avoided because they consume 
oxygen, such as also do thin soups, lemonade, malt cof- 
fee, and other beverages of slight food value. 

Breakfast: In summer, a glass of cold milk, sweet 
or sour, and with it strawberries, huckleberries, cher- 
ries, or other fruit in season ; in winter, milk or cocoa, 
thick oatmeal soup with bread (whole wheat, whole 
rye), or something similar. When the bowels are slug- 
gish, take a little fruit on rising in the morning and at 
bedtime. 

Dinner: Cereals, rice, macaroni, dumplings and eggs, 
with fresh greens, spinach, fresh peas, fresh beans, 
cauliflower, all varieties of cabbage, cucumbers, pump- 
kins and squashes. Root vegetables are not excluded. 
Celery and parsnips alone interfere with the renewal 
of blood. They ought not to be eaten frequently. 

Afternoon Lunch: Fruit, milk or one cup only of 
weak cocoa. If the appetite is good, omit this meal. 

Supper: Every day, if possible, some fresh greens 
seasoned with lemon juice, particularly cresses, lettuce, 
endive, spinach and red cabbage, with puddings of meal 
or eggs. Sour milk with fruit and mild cheese, may 
be taken for a change. In winter, thick soup or por- 
ridge with fruit, preferably apples and huckleberries. 
Also an apple at bedtime. 

Anemic people commonly have no wish for meat. 
They force themselves to eat it in the belief that only 
on a meat diet is it possible for them to become strong. 
They would do better to follow their inclination and re- 
frain from it altogether. They regain health faster on 
a purely vegetable diet, one special reason being that the 
digestion is less burdened. 

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A fattening, combined with a rest cure, and rational 
remedies, like Dech-Manna-Diet, are the best means of 
curing anemia. 

The deficient appetite must be stimulated through 
tastefully prepared dishes and much variety. The 
patient will thus unconsciously be induced to take more 
food. Delicacies and dainty dishes must foster pleasure 
in eating, and a little food between the principal meals 
will help to make up the necessary amount of food. 
Spinach, also egg omelettes filled with spinach, pud- 
dings, grit, oatmeal, light dishes prepared from large 
quantities of eggs, sugar, butter and milk, and roasted 
meat are the best articles of food for anemic patients. 
Drinks that are recommended are: strong malt beer, 
buttermilk, sour milk, Dech-Manna chocolate, Dr. Glet- 
ter's and other fruit coffees, red or specially suitable 
wines (China, Seravallo, Dalmatian, Greek, Bordeaux), 
fruits, berries, honey and~Dech-Manna-Diet. 

/ and II A . For Scrofulous Patients. 

Two affections, rachitis and scrofula, frequently co- 
exist, and the same dietary is appropriate for boih. 
Scrofulous patients often have a great longing for sul- 
phur and for irritating compounds. Frequently they 
consume salt greedily, eat charcoal, onions, and other 
piquant substances. This indicates their need of vege- 
tables and fresh greens full of nutritious salts, which 
taste and smell pungent because of the amount of 
sulphur they contain. 

Various kinds of cabbage are appropriate for the 
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a salad, with horseradish to give them relish* For sea- 
soning of vegetables and salads, onions and leeks may 
be used unsparingly; onion soups will be found palata- 
ble and will improve the lymph. 

At supper water-cress, lettuce, radishes, and sand- 
wiches made of chives are preferable to sausage and 
rich cheese. Fresh, mild cheese makes a good side- 
dish. 

Meat should be eaten sparingly, because it rapidly 
changes into products of decomposition in the lymph, 
and so the harmful rather than the useful fluids of the 
body are increased. 

In connection with rachitis and scrofula a ravenous 
appetite is often manifested. This is a morbid symp- 
tom. It arises from exhaustion of the stomach and in- 
testines, for no increase of bodily weight accompanies 
it. The greater part of the nourishment taken passes 
out of the system without being digested. Such per- 
sons, whether adults or children, should have their 
meals at regular, short intervals, for they are unable to 
restrain their morbid eagerness for food. After a few 
days of strict diet they lose their appetite, a condition 
that must be accepted until a natural hunger takes its 
place and results in a normal increase in body weight. 

It is well known that many people suffer from 
hives and eczema after having eaten certain dishes, 
such as crawfish, strawberries, oysters, honey, tomatoes 
or cheese. For such people to refrain from partaking 
of this kind of food is the best protection against 
eczema. 

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As a rule such patients should avoid sharp and 
spicy dishes; especially desirable is a diet of fresh, 
good meat, not in very large quantity, alternating with 
days on which no meat at all is taken. It is imperative 
to avoid sharp cheese, such as Roquefort, mustard, sar- 
delles, mixed pickles and similar spicy dishes. Form 
VI is fine for patients suffering from scrofulosis. 

/ and II B. For Tuberculous Patients. 

Patients who suffer from diseases of the lungs do 
not require food of different composition than is gener- 
ally recommended, provided their digestive organs are 
healthy. They must have albumen (medium fat beef, 
veal, lean pork, haddie, pickled herring, eggs, brick 
cheese, peas) and fat in sufficient, even abundant quan- 
tity. Warmed milk is recommended especially. Variety 
in food should prevail. This will be the best means of 
overcoming the dangerous lack of appetite, which muct 
be stimulated by delicacies and cleverly prepared dish- 
es given between meals, sandwiches, cold fowl, jellies, 
piquant cold meats. The single portions should be small 
but frequent. Good beer rich in malt (Bavarian and 
other dark beer), strong malt beer, sherry, malaga and 
other sweet wines, are all able to promote the appetite, 
unless the physician orders strict abstinence from al- 
cohol. 

In case of hemorrhage of the lungs, the physician 
will generally prescribe liquid food exclusively, and rr.s 
orders must be observed strictly. In such cases it is 
very advisable to take gelatine, which can be prepared 
in a variety of ways, or meat jellies. 

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I and II C. For Syphilitic Patients. 

The diet for people affected wih syphilis does not 
vary from the one given under I and II A. for scrofu- 
lous patients. Just as in the case of scrofulosis, a rich 
diet has always been recommended for syphilis. (Form 
VI). 

In former times starvation-cures were applied in 
case of syphilis, based on the hypothesis that diseased 
humours in the body should be reduced. In view of 
the noxious effect which the disease exercises on the 
entire body, this method has been given up. In case of 
the hereditary syphilis of infants, the best possible diet 
for the mother must always be insisted upon. (Never 
less than Form VI and Dech-Manna Eubiogen, with 
each meal). If nursing by the mother is impossible, 
and since a wet-nurse cannot be subjected to the danger 
of contamination through the child, easily digestible 
substitutes for mother's milk should be selected; that 
is, not cow's milk, but other approved nutritive foods 
for infants. It will be most beneficial to add Dech- 
Manna Eubiogen Liquid to the child's food. 

/ and II D. For Cancer Patients. 

Cachectic patients should not, as some authorities 
recommended in former times, be starved by poor diet 
in addition to the losses which they already suffer when 
afflicted with diseases, such as cancer. Except in case 
of cancer of the stomach and bowels, when I would 
recommend Form III and, with gradual improvement, 
an increase up to Form VI, the latter form of diet 
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instructions, as given above under the heading, I and 
II C, For Syphilitic Patients, should also be followed 
in these cases. 

Dech-M anna-Compositions: (Only main com- 
positions, specialties to Doctor's order). 

I. Anemia: Serogen, Eubiogen. 

I and II A. Scrofulosis: Serogen Lymp- 
hogen, Dermogen, Eubiogen. 

I and II B. Tuberculosis : Serogen, Lymp- 
hogen, Mucogen, Gelatinogen, Eubiogen. 

I and II C. Syphilis: Serogen, Lymphogen, 
Dermogen, Eubiogen. 

I and II D. Cancer: Serogen, Lymphogen, 

Eubiogen. 
Physical : 

I. Anemia. Breathing Exercises. 

I and II A. Scrofulosis: Partial Packs, 

Oxygenator baths, Radium and Salt 

whole baths. 
I and II B. Tuberculosis: Ablutions, 

Breathing Exercises. 
I and II C. Syphilis: Abdominal packs, 

Partial packs, Oxygenator, Radium and 

Salt half baths. 
I and II D. Cancer: Oxygenator, Radi- 
um and Salt whole baths. 

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If. DEGENERATION OF THE LYMPH 

TISSUE. 

The lymph, the second life-giving fluid, is 
first drawn from the chyle, the milky juice, 
into which all food is manufactured in the 
stomach, and after having directly fed the 
nerves, enters the blood through the ductus 
thoracicus, and accompanies it in its circula- 
tion. According to its nature some degenera- 
tions of the lymph tissue are coincident with 
degenerations of the blood, and especially the 
serum, such as Scrofulosis, Tuberculosis, 
Syphilis and Cancer, while other degenera- 
tions of the lymph tissue coincide with de- 
generations of the lymph-fed nerve tissue and 
are consequently treated under that heading. 



III. DEGENERATION OF THE NERVE 

TISSUE. 

The nerves which form the very compli- 
cated system of gelatinous cords of various 
sizes which emanate from the brain and the 
spinal cord, send thousands of branches 
through the entire body. They communi- 

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cate the impressions from the outside to the 
brain and convey and transport its conscious 
or unconscious (instinctive) orders to the 
muscles of all organs. The nerves, as stated 
above, jire fed by the lymphatic system and 
are everywhere accompanied by blood-vessels, 
and the oxygenous blood in the latter conveys 
the oxygen to the nerve substance, which it 
burns, and thus causes the development of 
power to execute the various functions. Natur- 
ally the supply that replaces the burned nerve 
substance, must be adequate, and if for any 
reason whatsoever more nerve substance is 
utilized than the body is able to renew by the 
time it is needed, the nerve system becomes 
degenerated and numerous disturbances are 
the consequence. This is the great field for 
mental functions and disturbances, for moods 
and reactions on muscular tracts which in 
themselves are healthy, but are paralyzed ill 
their work through the defective function of 
the power-conveying wires. Again it is im- 
possible here to give more than this general 
description showing on what nervous diseases 
are based. The manifold manifestations of 
this degeneration were combined into groups 
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Greek name of a system meant everything, its 
real explanation only little. 

The principal ways in which these degen- 
erations manifest themselves are pains, mental 
agony and derangement, temporary cessation 
of functions, cramps, involuntary movements 
and similar disturbances. The names general- 
ly applied to them are neuralgia and neuritis 
(pains in the nerves of a certain part of the 
body) ; neurasthenia (consisting mainly of 
the complete relaxation of tension in the nerv- 
ous system, causing sadness, inability for 
work, etc.) ; asthma (cramp-like cessation of 
certain functions of the small vessels of the 
lungs, alveoli, which prevents respiration) ; 
epilepsy (temporary cramp in the greater part 
of the body, causing loss of consciousness, in- 
voluntary movements of all limbs, etc.) ; St. 
Vitus's dance, a similar affection, mainly of 
children. 

While the complicated nature of the nerve 
diseases requires very careful treatment of 
great individual variety, the general rule is 
that the reenforcement of the nerves with the 
material of which they are built, together with 
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normal condition prevents the disturbances 
mentioned above, will bring about a cure. Of 
course this is sometimes a slow process, es- 
pecially when, as in the case of epilepsy, the 
nervous disease is of a hereditary character, 
and the resistant power of the nerves is cor- 
respondingly weak. 



Therapy. 

Diet : If the entire nervous system is in a condition 
of pathological irritability, as in cases of neurasthenia 
and hysteria, it is the object of rational diet to keep 
all irritations from such a vibrating organism. To 
prescribe : "No coffee, no tea, no alcohol, no strong 
spices and no tobacco," will do no damage, and in most 
cases prove beneficial. Nothing is more absurd than 
the attempt to strengthen nervous people by the use of 
alcohol. If they are forbidden the use of alcohol en- 
tirely, it will very often be seen that some symptom, 
like headache, neuralgia, etc., was due to its use. When- 
ever the general conditions permit the continued use 
of alcohol to a certain extent, it must not be left to the 
patient's judgment to determine how far he may go, 
but definite quantities must be prescribed in each in- 
dividual case, although the patient's experience may be 
of assistance in determining said quantity. (Moritz). 

Good results have been obtained by limiting the 
meat diet of extremely nervous patients, and prescrib- 

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ing for them a diet consisting principally of milk, eggs, 
cereals, vegetables and fruits. In this way the irritat- 
ing effect of many of the meat extracts is avoided, 
while at the same time the digestive work of the stom- 
ach, reduced by the limited meat diet, and the stimula- 
tion of stool, always promoted by a prevalence of vege- 
table elements in the diet, exercises a beneficial influ- 
ence on the condition of the patient. 

Disturbances in the stomach and intestines are very 
closely connected with neurasthenia and hysteria, in 
some cases being the cause, and in other cases, which 
occurs more frequently, the consequence of the same. 
Excessive, and more rarely, defective secretion of 
hydrochloric acid by the stomach cells, cramps, general 
atony of the stomach, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, 
tympanites (excessive production of gases), may all 
arise from nervous causes. In such cases the diet 
must be the same as given for the nervous disease. 

Not only in these cases, but in most of the nervous 
diseases, a diet which does not produce irritation and 
lacks alcohol, will have to be prescribed. The danger 
of alcohol in cases of peripheric neuritis, epilepsy and 
mental diseases, is obvious. 

Epileptics, as other nervous patients, should re- 
ceive a diet that is mainly, but not exclusively, a vege- 
table diet, exclusive of all highly spiced food. 

The same principles govern in case of Basedow's 
disease, which is a special type of irritating diseases. 
Absolutely necessary foodstuffs to be recommended in 
this case are clams, sole and water cress, because they 
contain more organic iodine than any other known food- 
stuff. As iodine is the basic mineral of the thyroid 

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gland, and other preparations are poisonous or danger- 
ous, the necessity of partaking of these dishes becomes 
obvious, in addition to the fact that if properly prepared, 
they are delicious. 

A diet void of irritation is also most important for 
children who suffer from nervous conditions, such as 
St. Vitus's dance, involuntary urination during sleep, 
etc. Alcohol and alkaline and carbonated drinks must 
also be avoided in all nervous conditions that are com- 
bined with hyperemia of the brain, as meningitis, apo- 
plexia, tumors of the brain, etc., since they produce 
congestions. 

Special dietetic directions cannot be given for all 
of the innumerable varieties of the various other nerv- 
ous diseases. The general principle must always gov- 
ern, .that sufficient food is the natural foundation, not 
only for the self-healing tendencies of the organism, but 
also for every effective therapy. In special cases where 
neurasthenia and hysteria or nervous dyspepsia prevail, 
it will be necessary to apply a special diet to be. pre- 
scribed by the physician. 



DBCH-MANNA-COMPOSITIONS. 

(Only main compositions, specialties to Doctor's order.) 

Acute form, Neuralgia, Neuritis: Neurogen, 

Serogen, Eubiogen. 

Chronic form, Asthma, Epilepsy, St. Vitus's 

Dance: Neurogen Serogen, Lymphogen, 

Eubiogen. 

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Physical: 
Acute form: Partial packs. 
Chronic form: Partial packs, Massage. 

# 

IV. DEGENERATION OF THE BONE 

TISSUE. 

Rickets, Osteomalacia and similar diseases. 
The skeleton, the solid structure of the 
osseous frame, is of the greatest importance 
to the maintenance of health. Its various 
diseases, such as deficient development of 
bones, osteomalacia (softening of the bones), 
flat foot, caries (molecular decay or death 
of bones), especially of the teeth, are based 
mostly on rachitis (rickets). Rachitis should 
be fought at the time the child develops in the 
mother's womb, by properly feeding the 
mother and preparing her to give the child, 
after its birth, healthy milk, with all the 
elements necessary for bone structure. Ra- 
chitis is principally lack of lime in the food, 
which causes parts of the bones to remain 
soft instead of becoming rigid. It is a con- 
stitutional, often hereditary, disease caused 
by poor nutrition and by influences of en- 

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vironment, such as marshy regions and hu- 
mid climate. The lack of lime in the food 
is often obvious -when children show a tend- 
ency to eat chalk, and even to scratch walls 
in order to eat the lime obtained therefrom. 
More solid food that gives work to the 
teeth and the digestive organs, is certainly 
advisable. 

The symptoms of rachitis become appar- 
ent at the pelvis and at the wide open soft 
parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles. 
The cartilage in the wrists and ankles be- 
comes thick. Slow development of the teeth, 
swollen glands in the neck, inflammations 
in different parts of the body, cramps and 
convulsions, among others of the vocal 
cords, are further indications. In the pro- 
gressing development of the disease, the 
softened cartilage grows and protrudes 
everywhere, especially in the thorax, "ra- 
chitis rosary/' Crooked bones and hunch- 
backs develop. 



Therapy. 

Diet: Older children should receive chopped meat, 
eggs, zwieback or whole grain bread. Bouillon will sti- 
mulate their digestion. Uffelmann recommends t 

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mixture of one part veal bouillon and two to three 
parts of milk, which the children like to take. It is 
unnecessary to feed calcium directly when a rachitic 
diet is observed. Sufficient is contained in the 
Dech-Manna-Diet, given principally in milk and as a 
rule also in the drinking water. 

Large quantities of amylaceous (starchy) food, 
candy, cakes, and other sweets, fruits, coarse vege- 
tables and potatoes must be avoided, since with 
children they are the cause of stomach trouble, re- 
sulting in decomposition and the formation of acids 
in the intestines. 

Breakfast: Milk and whole grain bread, or oatmeal 
porridge and fruit. Whole grain bread signifies any 
variety of bread made from flour containing the 
entire contents of the grain, the gluten as well as 
the bran; among these are Graham-bread, rye-bread, 
pilot-bread, Westphalian rye-bread (German pumper- 
nickel), and Rhenish black bread. 

Mid-morning Lunch : Raw carrots ; for small 
children and for those having poor teeth, oat flakes. 

Dinner: Every other day, legumes prepared in 
various ways, and fruit, vegetables or fresh greens; 
for example: ^ 

a) White beans boiled to the consistency of a thick 
soup with apples or potatoes; boiled whole and served 
with carrots, fresh beans, cabbage or cauliflower, or 
mixed with them; boiled to a thick consistency, sea- 
soned with pepper-grass or marjoram, and served with 
different vegetables; or browned like a vegetable cutlet 
with various fresh greens. 

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b) Fresh pea soup containing rice, barley, sweet 
corn or oatmeal ; a thick pea porridge with parsley, serv- 
ed with carrots, cabbage, white turnips, red cabbage, 
Savoy cabbage, or various fresh greens ; or simply 
browned. 

c) Dried pea soup with similar contents; porridge 
eaten with barley, sauerkraut, salted cucumbers, fresh 
greens, baked potatoes; or browned and eaten with any 
vegetables. 

d) Lentils boiled in soup with the same contents 
as the above, or with plums and apples ; boiled whole 
with plums and potatoes; in the form of a thick soup* 
or with vegetables ; as porridge, particularly with pota- 
toes and fresh greens ; browned with any vegetables. 

Care must be taken never to eat leguminous pro- 
ducts in large quantities, because their nutritious pro- 
perties are so high. Potatoes should be used whole 
when added to other vegetables, and not strained, be- 
cause they easily lose thereby their valuable sulphuric 
contents. 

Afternoon Lunch: Fruit and whole grain bread, or 
a glass of milk and bread. 

Supper: In summer, cold or warm porridge with 
fruit and fresh greens, and besides these millet, buck- 
wheat, oats, barley and Graham-bread, as especially ef- 
ficient bone material. Sweet or sour milk proves a rel- 
ishing addition. In winter, soup made of the above 
grains, or of potatoes not deprived of their mineral 
contents and unstrained; in addition a salad of root 
vegetables, beets, celery, fresh beans, potatoes, or a 
mixed salad. 

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Dech-M anna-Compositions: Osseogen, Se- 
rogen, Cartilogen, Eubiogen. 

Physical: Gymnastics, Massage. 

V. DEGENERATION OF THE MUSCU- 
LAR TISSUE. 

Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, Infantile 
Paralysis, Atrophy, Amyloid Organs. 

The muscles, about 400 pairs, which must 
perform all the actual work of the body, re- 
quire good nourishment through the blood, 
which will rapidly replace the cells that are 
constantly used up, Muscular diseases are all 
caused by disturbances in the quality and cir- 
culation of the blood. Interruption in the pro- 
per circulation of the blood, stagnation etc., 
cause rheumatism with intense pains, and this 
can be removed only by restoring the undis- 
turbed circulation of the blood, carrying all 
substances requisite for the proper nutrition 
of the muscles. If the disease of the muscular 
tissue combines with a diseased condition of 
the accompanying nerves, we speak of Sciatica. 
Infantile paralysis, which often appears sud- 
denly, muscular atrophy, a disease that de- 

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velops slowly, progressive and chronic atrophy 
of the muscles, are also muscular diseases, 
combined with destruction of the accompany- 
ing nerve tissue. 

A special group of muscular diseases con- 
sists of amyloid (fatty) degeneration of vital 
muscle substance, as for instance of the heart, 
the kidneys, the liver. They are also caused 
by faulty composition of the blood, which 
does not feed these muscles with the right sub- 
stances, and thus causes them to degenerate 
by developing too much fat. The predisposi- 
tion for the disease is very often inherited. 
Amyloid degeneration is often combined with 
wasting diseases, such as atrophy, tuberculosis 
and dropsy. 



Therapy. 

Diet: Sufferers from gout must always be guided 
by the necessity of avoiding all food that contains large 
quantities of acid. In a general way it is also 
necessary to live moderately in every respect and to 
avoid all excesses. 

There are a number of dishes that are harmful to 
such patients. Among them are various meats, es- 
pecially dark roast meat, also game. In general, and 
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from white meat also. Spleen, liver, kidney, sweet- 
bread, brains are absolutely prohibited, also sausage 
and smoked and canned meats, oily fish, especially eel, 
salmon, pike, and all smoked fish. The amount of 
meat eaten must not exceed 200 grams per clay. The 
following must also be avoided : all sharp cheeses, cab- 
bage, sauerkraut, pickled lentils and beans. 

Among vegetables the following are recommended : 
asparagus, celery, potatoes, topinambur, stachys; while 
the vegetables containing oxalic acid, such as spinach, 
sorrel, rhubarb and cress it is best to avoid. Butter is 
permitted in small quantities, also eggs. Sweet fari- 
nose dishes are unnecessary. Tea and coffee are allow- 
ed as beverages in very small amounts. The principal 
drinks, however, should be mineral waters, such as 
Vichy, Apollinaris, etc., which may be varied from time 
to time. 

It is heartily recommended that the patients eat much 
fruit. 

Breakfast: (a) In winter, tea made from the leaves 
of the haw, blackberry, or strawberry, Dr. Weil's Ger- 
man tea, cereal coffee, weak cocoa with bread and but- 
ter; (b) In summer, sour milk, fruit juices, or still bet- 
ter, fruit and bread; among fruits particularly straw- 
berries, currants, gooseberries, huckleberries, choke- 
cherries, grapes, apples. 

Mid-morning Lunch: Radishes mashed with apples, 
also a raw cucumber or tomato in the form of a salad. 

Dinner: No meat, no soup; fresh greens, fresh 
vegetables with potatoes, rice, macaroni, and a dish of 
corn, rice, grits, peas, beans, tomatoes or mushrooms. 

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In addition, light custard with fruit or sweetmeats with 
fruit. 

Afternoon Lunch: Fruit only. 

Supper: Fresh lettuce, with macaroni, baked pota- 
toes, pancakes, custard; or radishes with cream and 
potatoes, custard, mild cheese and leeks. 

Exclusive fruit dietaries, comprising strawberries, 
currants, choke-cherries and grapes, are effective in pre- 
venting eruptions on the skin and removing their ef- 
fects. From one to three-quarters of a pound of fruit 
should be eaten at a meal, either with a little bread 
or with sour milk, and at dinner as a desert. In win- 
ter, from three to seven lemons a day serve the same 
purpose. The juice is used without sugar and with as 
little water as possible, never with the meal, but a little 
before or after, or in the morning on an empty stomach. 
Only fresh lemons should be used for this purpose, not 
the prepared lemon juice which is so generally sold in 
the market. Tomatoes may be eaten in the same way. 

In mild cases of gout and rheumatism some crisp 
lean meat and fish may be eaten, but even then not every 
day. A diet without meat has a better curative effect 
upon the disease. 

Alcohol is to be shunned as totally inadmissible. The 
wines which contain no alcohol must serve as substi- 
tutes. 

Special Diet: For Diseases of the Heart and Inactive 

Kidneys. 

Patients, who are afflicted with any kind of heart or 

kidney diseases, must be very careful never to overload 

the stomach. They should eat small meals, at frequent 

intervals, and avoid irritating food, especially milk; the 

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amount of liquids and milk must be determined by the 
physician. A moderate amount of salt only is allowed, 
and if the physician so prescribes, a diet containing 
little salt, or lacking it altogether, must be observed. 

In case of acute inflammation of the kidneys, meat 
is absolutely prohibited; the best diet is an exclusive 
milk-diet, consisting of at least 1 to \ l / 2 quarts fresh 
milk, and in certain cases warmed milk, taken by the 
spoonful and cooled with ice, the quantity to be in- 
creased, if necessary, to 3 and 4 quarts per day. In- 
stead of milk, buttermilk, sour mi)k, kefir, koumiss or 
yoghurt may be taken. 

Beef broths are strictly prohibited. In their place 
slimy soups of oats, barley, sago, tapioca, rice, grit, may 
be taken; furthermore leguminose soups, made from 
the preparations of the firms Knorr, Liebig, Maggi, and 
others. 1 to 2 spoonfuls of these preparations are put 
into a cupful of water, some salt is added, if not pro- 
hibited by the physician and the mixture is then boiled. 

A more varied diet is allowed in lighter forms of 
the disease, such as milk dishes, mashed potatoes, pre- 
served apples or pears, rolls and butter, bread, cream, 
cream cheese, farinaceous dishes, eggs and green vege- 
tables, meat according to the orders of the physician. 
Spices and alcohol must be strictly avoided. 

In cases of chronic kidney diseases, greater variety 
should be observed in the diet. In any event, however, 
a certain quantity of milk should be taken daily, not 
less than 1 quart per day. 

The following food is to be limited: All game, 
including birds, sausages and smoked meat, sweet- 
bread, brains, liver, spleen, crawfish, lobster, rich 

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cheese, especially Roquefort, Parmesan, Camembert, all 
sharp spices, such as pepper, paprika, mustard, cinna- 
mon, garlic, onions; among vegetables such as radishes, 
horseradish, celery, asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes, 
sorrel, fenugreek; furthermore, all meat extracts, pi- 
quant sauces and soup spices. 

As mentioned above, no alcohol should be served on 
the table of a patient with kidney disease. The excep- 
tions must be prescribed by the physician. The same 
applies to all new wines and beef soups. 

The following dishes are permitted : Among meats, 
white meat (about 200 grams per day, preferably it 
noon). This comprises domestic fowl, fresh pork, 
lamb and veal, also beef, especially boiled beef. As 
variety from time to time, mutton and fresh fish. 

The preferable way to prepare dishes for patients 
suffering from kidney diseases, is to boil them; the 
next best way is to steam them, and the third and least 
desirable way is roasting. 

Heartily recommended : calfs feet and pig's feet, 
calf s head, especially in the form of jellies and pickled, 
if so ordered by the physician, without salt. Occasion- 
ally raw beef may be given, but without sharp spices. 

Fish : Trout, pike, carp ; Saltwater fish : haddock 
and cod-fish, boiled blue; also frogs' legs. 

Eggs are permitted, soft boiled, 2 to 3 per day. 

Vegetables : With exception of the vegetables men- 
tioned above, they are very commendable, especially po- 
tatoes, green peas, white and yellow turnips, red beets, 
cauliflower, lentils, beans, the latter particularly, mash- 
ed; also salad with cream and very little mild vinegar 
or lemon juice. 

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Fats, such as cream, butter, rich cheese, olive oil, may 
be given if they agree with the patient; bacon is not 
so good. 

Bread, white as well as black, and especially Graham 
bread, may be eaten without restrictions. 

As drinks : mineral water with lemon or orange 
juice added. Raspberry juice is permitted but currant 
and gooseberry juice must be avoided on account of 
the substances contained in them irritating to the kid- 
neys. Fruit juices free from alcohol (apple cider) 
may be given. 

Diet without salt : In some cases the physician finds 
it necessary to prescribe a diet without salt, for the 
patient suffering from kidney diseases. For such a 
patient the best dishes are slimy soups, milk and farina- 
ceous dishes, bread and eggs. 

Every morning on rising, a glass of fruit juice or 
some fruit. 

At supper: Salad of cresses or celery, or a mixed 
salad, radishes, asparagus, squash and cucumbers. When 
the urinary flow is very scanty, supper may consist of 
a cup of celery soup, cucumber water or asparagus 
brcth ; in winter, haw tea. 

A few suggestions for dinner, omitting meat entire- 
ly: 

Dumplings with cabbage salad, red cabbage or Ba- 
varian cabbage; sliced oatmeal cake with fruit. — Cu- 
cumbers with eggs and potato bread, rolled griddle 
cakes and fruit. — Cabbage with rice and butter, griddle 
cakes with fresh greens. 

Squash with lemon, potatoes, toasted beans, fruit. — 

Red cabbage with macaroni, potato fritters, with fruit. — 

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Dumplings and pears, lettuce. — White turnips with 
cream and potatoes, buckwheat groats, fruit. — Pea soup 
with sweet corn, squash and rice with fruit. — Lentils 
and potatoes, salad of celery or beets, fruit. — Asparagus 
with drawn butter and parsley sauce and bread dump- 
lings, oat groats with fruit. — Cauliflower with macaroni, 
buckwheat groats and milk. — Cabbage with browned po- 
tatoes, oatmeal cake with fruit. 

For Irritable Kidneys {Inflammation, Suppuration, 

Contraction, etc.), and Diseases 

of the Bladder. 

For patients suffering from these diseases all spiced 
and sharp dishes are prohibited, especially dishes with 
much pepper and mustard, also mixed pickles, preserves 
containing vinegar, salads unless seasoned with lemon 
juice instead of vinegar; furthermore, dishes which pro- 
duce gas, such as dishes made from yeast. Fruits are 
permitted only in small quantities, avoiding absolutely 
gooseberries and preserves made from the same. Pre- 
serves from other fruits, such as apples and cherries, 
are permitted in smaller quantities. 

As drinks, the mineral waters which are recommend- 
ed for people suffering from gout, are advisable here 
also. 

Kidney stones require a mixed diet, preferably vege- 
tables, fat and carbo-hydrates, very little meat, no sweet- 
bread, kidneys, brains, liver or spleen; meat, if taken at 
all, must be boiled. 

Not permitted: game, pickled fish, piquant sauces, 
beef broth. 

Dispense with meat, celery, radishes, pears, 
cucumbers, even asparagus in large amounts. Eat 

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eggs only sparingly. In place of these foods make up a 
diet of milk preparations, rice, grits, oats, millet, 
buckwheat. Currant juice and wild cherries, apple 
sauce, diluted lemon juice, are all of great benefit. 
Soups made from squash, cucumbers or celery, haw 
tea, buttermilk and sour milk, mild cheese, or porridge 
and fruit are excellent supper dishes. 

For Liver Diseases. 

In general, fatty substances should be eliminated as 
much as possible from the nourishment in the case of 
liver diseases, jaundice and gall stones. To be recom- 
mended are light farinaceous dishes with milk, vege- 
tables, fruit and all easily digestible foods. Meat must 
be taken only in very small quantities, according to the 
advice of the physician, and with very little fat. Spices 
and alcohel are prohibited. Pastry and rich foods must 
be avoided. In case of jaundice the patient should re- 
ceive liquid food only during the first few days, con- 
sisting of soups, light tea, carbonated waters; later, 
milk, the yolks of eggs, zwieback and light milk dishes. 
Patients suffering from gall stones may receive the 
same diet as prescribed for those suffering from liver 
diseases, generally speaking. In case of liver diseases 
it is necessary to adhere very strictly to the prescrip- 
tions of the physician, since they are due to various 
reasons, and only the physician can give the proper in- 
dividual directions, after having determined the cause. 

Every morning on rising, a glass of unsweetened 
lemonade, or a wineglass of currant wine or grape 
juice, or some acid fruit. — The same on retiring at 
night. — For a second breakfast, four or six radishes, or 
a tablespoonful of grated radish, or a teaspoonful of 

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horseradish mixed with apple sauce, eaten with a little 
bread and butter. — The same for supper. 

The following are a few suggestions for dinner 
without meat: 

Cabbage, potato porridge, gooseberries with egg and 
milk sauce. — Lentils with potatoes and fresh green's, 
cresses or lettuce, fruit. — Carrots and fresh peas or pea 
porridge, with wild cherries. — Savoy cabbage with rice 
and tomato sauce, fruit with millet cakes. — Leeks with 
potatoes, macaroni and plums. — Young green beans with 
dried white beans and apples or other fruit, beets with 
cream, rolled dumplings, fruits. — White cabbage with 
macaroni, chopped apples or sour milk. 

Dech-Manna Compositions: (Only main com- 
positions, specialties to the Doctor's order.) 
Rheumatism: Muscogen, Serogen, Eubiogen. 
Sciatica: Muscogen, Serogen, Eubiogen. 

Amyloid heart: Muscogen, Serogen, Eubio- 
gen. 

Amyloid kidney or liver: Muscogen, Sero- 
gen, Mucogen, Eubiogen. 

Physical: Rheumatism: Partial packs, either 
vinegar and water or radium and salts. 
Massage, if necessary, and special oxygen- 
ator baths, and radium and salt baths. 
Sciatica: Leg packs, oxygenator baths, 
half radium and salt baths. 

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Amyloid heart, kidney or liver: Abdominal 
packs, gymnastics, oxygenator baths, 
whole radium and salt baths. 



VI. DEGENERATION OF THE MUCOUS 
MEMBRANE TISSUE. 

Catarrh in acute and chronic forms, bron- 
chitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, inflammation of 
nose, throat, bowels, stomach, bladder. 

Decomposition of mucous membrane, hem- 
orrhoids, polyps, benign tumors, also Bright's 
disease in its first stages. 

Catarrhal diseases are among the most fre- 
quent in various degrees, owing to the very 
tender nature of the mucous membranes. They 
are characterized as destructions of the pro- 
tective membranes which cover the serous 
layer of the organs, in which layer the lymph 
circulates. The numerous ends of blood-ves- 
sels and nerves which are thus exposed to at- 
tack, and the spreading of the disease to heal- 
thy tissues which thus become affected in the 
same way make the various catarrhal 
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sorts, particularly unpleasant. All degenera- 
tions of the mucous membrane, however, are 
based on deficiencies in blood circulation and 
composition. A cure is perfected through the 
restoration of the serous layer to normal con- 
dition, and the regeneration of the blood and 
perfect circulation. 

These various catarrhs affect all parts that 
are covered with mucous membranes, among 
them the sexual organs of women (leukorr- 
hoea, fluor albus), which, if not properly 
treated, constitute the basis for all sorts of 
polyps, tumors, etc., and in many cases con- 
tinued attacks form the predisposition to can- 
cer. The lymphatic system is the carrier of 
all germs to the various mucous membranes, 
and promotes the spreading of catarrh to ail 
parts of the body, from the sexual organs. 

Among the more serious and dangerous 
forms of acute diseases of this class which, 
when lacking proper treatment, develop into 
chronic diseases, are the catarrhal affections 
of the lungs and bronchia, grippe, influenza, 
catarrh of t*he intestines, the bladder, the hem- 
orrhoids and Bright's (kidney) disease. The 
latter especially is among the most dangerous 
diseases, and is considered incurable by the 

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adherents of the old medical school, while the 
discovery that it is essentially the same as 
other catarrhal diseases, has established the 
possibility of complete cure, -which we have 
effected in many cases, even neglected cases 
of long standing. 

The many varieties of symptoms, all of 
which are finally reduced to the proper treat- 
ment of the mucous membranes, make it im- 
possible to give, in this brief synopsis, more 
details concerning the diseases of this import- 
ant group. They will be found, together with 
the modern explanation of the developments 
of serious diseases from apparently unim- 
portant catarrhal affections, in the very com- 
plete and extensive descriptions of this group 
in Chapter X, Section 6, of my work, "Dare To 
Be Healthy." 



Therapy. 

Diet: a.) Catarrh in all its acute forms. 

In these cases the diet is almost identical with the 
fever diet, as given in Forms II, III and IV. 

b.) Catarrh in all its chronic forms. 

Diet same as above, but apply Forms IV, V, VI. 

c.) Hemorrhoids, Polyps, Adenoids, Benign Tumors 
or Fungus Growths. 

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There are no special prescriptions for these, regard- 
ing diet, except that easily digestible food must be eat- 
en. Mashed vegetables and fruit should prevail. The 
indigestible tissues, as skin, sinews and gristle, should 
be removed from the meat. No gas-producing dish- 
es, such as sauerkraut, cabbage, turnips or beans, ougnt 
to be taken. 

Throat and Larynx Diseases. 
To avoid irritation of the mucous membranes of the 
mouth and larynx, all sharp and spicy dishes and 
drinks are prohibited. 

In case of fever among the dishes that are particu- 
larly recommended, are slimy decoctions, not too hot, 
slimy soups, creams, milk, steamed fruit, fruit soups and 
sauces, minced white meat, roast or smothered hashed 
fish and meat without sharp spices. 
Dech-M anna-Compositions: (Only main compo- 
sitions, specialties to the Doctor's order). 
In general : Mucogen. 

Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Inflamma- 
tion of nose, throat, bozvels, stomach, blad- 
der, also benign growths in all chronic 
forms: Mucogen, Serogen, Gelatinogen, 
Eubiogen. 
Bright' s disease: (See special paragraph). 
Physical : 

Bronchitis pleurisy: Ablutions with vine- 
gar and water; partial packs or ablu- 
tions with vinegar and water; shoulder 

packs. 

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Pneumonia: Shoulder packs. 

Inflammation of nose, throat etc.: Partial 
packs or radium and salt three-quarter 
packs. 

Inflammation of bowels, stomach and blad- 
der: Warm abdominal packs in addi- 
tion to the above. 

Catarrh in chronic forms: Cold abdominal 
packs, massage. 

Decomposition of mucous membrane : Ab- 
dominal packs, partial packs, with vine- 
gar and water, or salt and radium em- 
anation, oxygenator and other baths, in 
case especially prescribed. 



VII. DEGENERATION OF TOOTH AND 
EYE TISSUES. 

It has been mentioned above that the some- 
what unusual method of classifying the eyes 
and the teeth together in one group of diseas- 
es, is based on the biological, chemical discov- 
ery that the lenses of the eyes, as well as the 
enamel of the teeth, contain fluoric acid, other- 
wise contained only in very small quantities 
in the enamel of the finger- and toe-nails. 
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the teeth would require another lengthy des- 
cription, for which the space is lacking, it may 
be sufficient to mention in this connection, 
that the best way of preserving the health of 
the teeth and the eyes is to keep them scrupu- 
lously clean. This purely hygienic method, 
especially regarding the teeth, will prevent 
them from becoming carious (decayed). In 
all cases where the trouble in the eyes con- 
cerns the lens, as well as when there is a gen- 
eral disposition for caries in the teeth, the 
treatment given below will produce the desir- 
ed curative and preventive effect: 



Therapy. 

Diet: Since most of the diseases of the teeth and 
eyes are only of secondary nature and consequences of 
other diseases, such as Bright's disease, diabetes, etc., 
the diet will have to be applied in accordance with the 
main disease, as described hereinafter. In the treat- 
ment of both, rye bread, which contains large quanti- 
ties of fluoric acid, is highly recommended. 

Dech'Manna-C compositions \ Teeth : Dento-Oph- 
thogen, Serogen, Osseogen, Eubiogen. 
Eyes: Dento-Ophthogen, Serogen, Gelatin- 
ogen, Eubiogen. 

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Physical: All physical directions according 
to the main diseases of which the tooth and 
eye diseases, in special cases, are but sec- 
ondary or accompanying diseases. 



VIII. DEGENERATION OF THE HAIR 

TISSUE. 

The hair is a tissue by itself. It is connect- 
ed with the rest of the body and nourished by 
the blood, as are all the other tissues of the 
body. During the thousands of years that 
men have been on earth it has lost much of its 
importance as a means of covering the body 
and keeping warm, but even in its reduced 
capacity it is a good and true indicator of cer- 
tain deficiencies in the blood and in the func- 
tions of the body. Its principal disease mani- 
fests itself in its loss, the shrinking of the 
little ball at its end, by means of which it is 
fastened in the skin. Since hair is a signifi- 
cant item of beauty, the change in its color 
and its loss are the most prominent manifesta- 
tions of the fact of approaching age. The vast 
majority of people do not accept this fact 
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thing else has been the victim of the activi- 
ties of fakirs. Its loss can be prevented to a 
great extent, and its quality kept in healthy 
condition, if it is treated in the proper hygien- 
ic-dietetic manner. 



Therapy. 

Diet: Diet in case of hair diseases calls for a com- 
bination of food containing lime, silica and gelatine. It 
must be selected from a list of dishes that possess these 
special nourishing qualities. 
Dech-M anna-Compositions: Capillogen, Serogen, 

Gelatinogen, Eubiogen. 
Physical: No special directions required. 



IX. DEGENERATION OF THE SKIN 
TISSUE. 

According to our conception of the human 
body as a unit, it is not difficult to understand 
that the skin does not form a separate organ, 
but that it is the uppermost layer of the body, 
nourished from within. By means of more 
than 2,500,000 small openings in the skin, call- 
ed the pores, communication is established be- 
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the body. This produces a permanent ex- 
change of matter, and thus the skin is, in fact, 
a second system of respiration of the greatest 
importance. Naturally it is subject to all trau- 
matic attacks through its exposed position on 
the human body. However, as stated before, 
traumatic affections cannot be discussed in 
this pamphlet. We want to give but a brief 
idea about the constitutional diseases of the 
skin which, like all others, originate in defi- 
cient blood. Often they are only secondary, 
and indications of various, more complicated, 
diseases. In a few cases they affect the skin 
alone, but are nevertheless constitutional, 
especially in such cases that could not exist at 
all, were the disposition not established con- 
stitutionally. 

There is hardly another department of 
medicine where the "quack" reaps so big a 
harvest as in the treatment of skin diseases. 
The concealment of symptoms becomes the 
rule, the removal of causes is invariably neg- 
lected. Many skin diseases, being the result 
of sexual infections, are allowed to develop 
because prudery and other motives prevent 
the early detection of the cause of the disease, 
and hence its quick and sure healing. 

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It is easy and natural for every one to 
notice the skin and see when there is anything 
wrong with it. Upon such a discovery one 
should immediately consult the hygienic-die- 
tetic physician, and follow his advice closely, 
since skin diseases are among the most obstin- 
ate to overcome. The physician will be able 
to determine whether there is real constitu- 
tional trouble or merely a superficial skin 
disease. Thus the underlying evil can be cor- 
rectly treated, in combination witli such spe- 
cialties as the skin tissue requires. Every 
skin disease must be treated from the inside, 
so as to destroy the disposition and even the 
chance for development. In view of the large 
field and the great importance of this group, 
it will be advisable for every one to read the 
many pages that have been devoted to this 
special subject in my work, "Dare To Be 
Healthy/' Chapter X, Section 9. 



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Therapy. 

Diet: The general rule of abstaining from peppery 
and spicy food should govern all patients suffering from 
skin diseases. Special attention is to be given to a 

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diet consisting of good, fresh meat, not too rich; it 
should be alternated with days on which no meat is 
eaten. Strong cheese (Roquefort), mustard, sar- 
delles, mixed pickles must be avoided. See also re- 
marks on Scrofulosis under I A. 

Dech-Manna-Compositions : Dermogen, Sero- 

gen, Gelatinogen, Eubiogen. 
Physical: Partial packs, either vinegar and 

water, or salt and radium. Special packs 

by order of the Doctor. 



X. DEGENERATION OF THE GEL AT I- 
GEN O US TISSUE. 

Another group of organs of vast import- 
ance is the one which consists of gelatigenous 
tissue. In fact all blood and lymphatic ves- 
sels, air alveoli of the lungs, tendons and 
cords of the whole system, the digestive tract 
from the mouth to the anus, the stomach, the 
bladder, and indeed every organ or tissue 
which has the function of expansion and con- 
traction, must be made of gelatigenous (rub- 
ber-like) tissue. Otherwise it cannot perform 
its duties in the organism and must needs be- 
come degenerated. 

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While there are not many special diseases 
of the gelatigenous tissue in itself, many dis- 
eased conditions occur in connection with its 
degeneration. This in turn is caused by the 
lack of gelatigenous food, which the blood 
must convey to this tissue wherever it exists 
in the body. 

It is obvious that each one of the numerous 
diseases which may affect the intestinal duct, 
the bladder and all other organs which con- 
tain gelatine in addition to their other tissues, 
will require the means wherewith to regener- 
ate the gelatine before they can be considered 
cured. The principal forms of disease which 
will affect the organs in question are the ones 
which have been discussed under catarrhal 
diseases (Section VI). The acute and chronic 
forms of the stomach and intestinal diseases, 
especially, belong to this group, and have con- 
sequently here been given special attention 
and consideration. Here again the treatment 
of this most important question in my work, 
"Dare To Be Healthy/' Chapter X A and B, 
will answer, in the most extensive and detailed 
manner, the needs of those who desire more 
enlightenment on this most vital and interest- 
ing topic. 

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Therapy. 

Diet: These diseases include all catarrhal diseases 
mentioned under VI A, also all inflammatory condi- 
tions of the stomach and intestines, in their acute form. 
As far as the acute forms are concerned in reference 
to inflammatory diseases, the suitable lists of diet are 
found under Forms II, III, IV, V and VI. Regarding 
the same diseases in the chronic form, the special diet 
lists are given under Forms IV, V and VI. In addition 
the following suggestions will be helpful : 

Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines. 

These prescriptions on diet serve for all internal 
diseases, especially and mostly for the diseases of the 
stomach and intestines, since they are in the closest 
connection with the work of the stomach, and so to 
speak, depend upon it. There are so very few people 
among those who supervise the food for a patient, who 
realize the dangers of erroneous diet. In most cases 
they do not possess a prescription for the rational pre- 
paration of food, such as only the hygienic physician is 
able to give. Food for persons suffering from diseases 
of the stomach, must be selected individually according 
to their idiosyncrasies against certain dishes. In one 
case the stomach must be prevented from doing too 
much work; in another case it must be stimulated. In 
one case its object must be to fatten; in another, to 
remove fat. In some cases the physician prescribes food 
which will retard movement of the bowels, in other 
instances, the patient requires food that will promote 
such movement. The diet for patients with fever must 

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be different from the diet for convalescing patients. 
People suffering from diabetes require a peculiar pre- 
paration of their food. Not everything that is good for 
an adult will be beneficial to a child. The digestibility 
of many dishes depends upon their preparation. The 
question of market prices cannot be considered, since 
they are so extremely different in different places. The 
value of food for patients can be judged rightly from 
but one standpoint, that of digestibility. 

The fundamental principles govering the nourish- 
ment for patients are digestibility, great variety, abol- 
ishment of all strong spices, nutritive and well selected 
material, the use of good ingredients only, pure but- 
ter, knowledge of quality. 

The temperature of drinks must be in strict ac- 
cordance with the prescription of the physician. The 
patient must be urged to masticate his food well, so 
that it will receive plenty of saliva in the mouth, and 
thus facilitate digestion. People who are very ill, 
should receive their food in the form of mush, so 
that they can partake of it more easily. All waste parts, 
such as skin, fat, sinews, bones, must be removed from 
the food, even for convalescents. Warmed up food and 
fibrous vegetables must be banished from the patient's 
table by all means. It must not be a question as to 
what the patient wants; the prescription of the physi 
cian only must govern. The patient's food, prepared 
carefully, absolutely correctly and in a cleanly manner 
is often superior in effect to any medicine. In case of 
strong thirst, great care must be exercised in regard to 
drinks, depending on the physician's directions. The 
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ting some glycerine on his lips and small pieces of ice 
on his tongue, without, however, permitting him to 
swallow the water as the ice melts. 

Normal Diet for Stomach Diseases. 

Milk, sweet and sour, buttermilk, yoghurt, kefir, al- 
bumen cacao, cereals in the form of mush, strained legu- 
mens, cooked in soup or milk, all sorts of slimy soups, 
farinose dishes prepared from stale rolls, biscuits, zwie- 
back, tender and easily digestible meats, mashed game 
meat, raw beef, ham, young vegetables, preserved fruit, 
meat jelly, cooked young fowl. 

Avoid the following: all indigestible fats, meat 
which inquires more than 4 to 5 hours for its diges- 
tion, hot s£fcds, gas-producing vegetables, gravy, mush- 
es, spices, fi'jits which abound in cellulose, such as 
apricots and peaches, hard stems, xylocarp ribs of 
leaves, the strong spelling and sharp tasting parts of 
some kinds of vegetables, as for instance, new potatoes, 
cabbage, (in the cooking of which the first water mus; 
be poured off), hot soups aud spicy herbs, spices of all 
kinds, game with strong taste, sausages, bacon, yeast 
pastry, drinks which are either tou hot or too cold, 
strong coffee (in the place of which fruit coffee is 
recommended), stale raisins and almonrij, nuts, too 
much candy, much liquid while eating, and excitement 
of all kinds while eating. 

General Hints for a nourishing treatment. 

The patient who is to gain in flesh must adhere 
strictly to the prescribed diet as well as to the prescrib- 
ed rest if the treatment is to take effect. 

The following articles are very nourishing: yolks oi 
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cheese, beef marrow on toast (cooked in soup), all 
kinds of noodles and dumplings, puddings, cocoa and 
chocolate, white bread, rich thick soups, gravy, dishes 
from oats prepared in various ways, potato dishes, 
sweet beer, Bavarian, malt beer, sweet wines and pud- 
dings with preserved fruits, fruit juices, meat obtained 
from well-fed animals only. All meals must be served 
in small portions, so as not to create disgust for food. 

7 A. M. — 250 grams of fresh, boiled, unskimmed 
milk, or J4 m'^art cocoa prepared with milk or Knorr's 
oat-cocoa, or y& quart cream with some tea added, one 
roll, butter and honey. 

9 A. M. — 1 cup bouillon, 20 grams hot or cold roast 
meat, 30 grams Graham or gluten bread, 10 grams but- 
ter. Then ;4 cmart milk, butter and Graham bread. 

11 A. M. — J4 quart milk with the yolk of one Qgg. 

1 P. M. — ICO grams soup (oat, barley, vegetable 
soup), green corn, sago soup, 100 grams potatoes, 1 00 
grams tender vegetables, such as spinach, mashed peas, 
mashed carrots, mashed artichokes, asparagus tips 
strained, 20 grams easily digestible rice, 50 gi?T>i<; pre- 
served fruit; or, no soup, but instead meat, vegetables, 
apple sauce, dishes made from milk or flour, such a* 
noodles, fruit, % quart cream. 

4 P. M. — Light tea or milk, with malt or cocoa add- 
ed, two crackers, y 2 quart milk. 

6 P. M. — 20 grams meat (hot or cold roast meat), 
raw meat or 10 grams Graham bread, 10 grams butter, 
milk chocolate, Graham bread, butter, honey. 

8 P. M. — 1 cup soup with 10 grams butter and one 
yolk, barley, oats, etc., eggs or meat, vegetables, preserv- 
ed fruits, Graham bread, butter, mild cream cheese. 

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9:30 P. M.—% quart milk, with a spoonful of malt 
extract, y% quart cream. 

As a second breakfast, for a lean patient, the fol- 
lowing drink is recommended : To a cup of unskim- 
med hot milk add one yolk and one spoonful of pure 
bee-honey. This must be taken in the morning on an 
empty stomach for several weeks. 

In case of Constipation. 

If constipation is due to nervousness or sluggish- 
ness of the bowels, the best means to overcome the 
trouble is mixed coarse food, using various mineral 
waters, and little meat, but plenty of vegetables, especial- 
ly sauerkraut, cabbage, topinambur, comfrey. caulifower, 
pumpkin, tomatoes, cucumbers, various salads and fruits, 
jellies. Among beverages: sour milk, buttermilk, kefir 
No. I and II, yoghurt, various new wines, fruit juices, 
different mineral waters, such as Apollinaris, Karlsbad 
waters, Hunyady; coarse bread, such as Graham, avoid- 
ing- fine white bread. In extremely chronic cases use 
my Laxagen Tea in case of emergency. 
Dech-Manna-Compositions : Gelatinogen, Sero- 

gen, Mucogen, Eubiogen. 
Physical: Abdominal packs, with vinegar and 

water. 

Acute — warm. 

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XL DEGENERATION OF THE CAR- 
TILAGINOUS TISSUE: 

Cartilage in the human body is the materi- 
al which must cover the end of each bone so as 
to prevent its destruction by friction. It is the 
important part in all joints- It is obvious that 
any degeneration of this particular tissue will 
cause friction, which is combined with severe 
pains, called Ankylosis, Gout. 

The degeneration is usually a consequence 
of improper porportion of the various food- 
stuffs consumed, omitting the material neces- 
sary for the construction of the cartilage, that 
is being used constantly, and hence is used up 
rapidly. Regeneration of the blood, by assist- 
ing it in its important task of feeding the car- 
tilaginous tissues, and regulation of the diet 
are the only two possible remedies for this 
group of diseases, which are of such frequent 
occurrence, and the alleged cure for which 
drives thousands of people to bathing resorts, 
where they do not derive the slightest real 
benefit. 

The form of gout called arthritis (deform- 
ing gout), is the most intense and dangerous 
degree of this group of diseases. 

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Therapy. 

Diet: The diet is exactly the same as stated for 
rheumatism and gout under V, Degeneration of the 
Muscular Tissue. (See pages 123, 124, 125.) 

Dech-Manna-Compositions : Cartilogen, Serogen, 

Gelatinogen, Eubiogen. 
Physical: Partial packs, salt and radium, mas- 
sage, oxygenator bath, half bath radium and 
salt. In case of arthritis, also special packs 
according to the directions of the Doctor. 
It is impossible to give a diet for arthritic 
patients, because this disease is so extremely 
individual. The determination of a diet in 
detail depends somewhat on the means of the 
patient. 



XII. DEGENERATION OF THE BODY 
TISSUE IN GENERAL. 

By "body tissue in general" we understand 
the body with the total sum of its cells and 
their various aggregations. Consequently a 
special composition of nutritive salts, under 
the name of Eubiogen, has been composed, 
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the chemical elements of the entire body in 
the correct proportion. Eubiogen, therefore, 
is prescribed as a secondary Dech-Manna- 
Composition, to be taken with all other com- 
positions. But it also acts independently as 
the best means of preventing degeneration, 
and in this capacity should not be missing 
from the table for adults as well as for chil- 
dren. The expense thus incurred would be 
saved many times over through its prevention 
of disease. 

Eubiogen takes a leading position in refer- 
ence to the following group of complicated 
diseases, in the treatment of which it becomes 
the most important factor among the nutritive 
compositions. Ataxia, Basedow's Disease, 
Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity, Bright's Disease, 
Arterio-Sclerosis, are the names of the dis- 
eases which belong to this class- I am per- 
fectly willing to explain to patients, this cura- 
tive method and the reasons for its applica- 
tion. But these complicated diseases, while 
based on the same degenerations of blood, and 
consequently of the tissues and organs, as all 
others, offer images which, from the point of 
view of the conscientious physician, cannot be 
presented with a few words of explanation. 

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Nor does the space of this pamphlet permit me 
to go into the matter with due thoroughness. 
All of these diseases have been described 
in my work "Dare To Be Healthy. ,, The pa- 
tient reader of this pamphlet will readily come 
to the conclusion that he who has found the 
key with which to cure the degenerations con- 
stituting various diseases, must not and will 
not shrink before their complications. Ataxia, 
Basedow's Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity, 
Bright' s Disease and Arterio-Sclerosis, can be 
cured. They can be cured by the same methods 
of which simpler examples have been given in 
this pamphlet. No one, who in the struggle for 
health has succumbed to the attack of these con- 
stitutional diseases, the germ for which may have 
been planted in him by his forefathers, needs 
despair. Let him come and receive advice, as 
so many have done before him, and the chances 
are that in due time he will have regained his 
health, and will be able to fulfil his task and pro- 
create healthy progeny. 



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CHILDREN'S DISEASES. 

We cannot deny that, taken as a whole, our 
race has been degenerating during recent 
years. There are not enough children, and 
there are above all, not enough normal, healthy 
children. Youth of exuberant strength, who 
delighted in revelling in nature and returned 
strengthened to an early sleep, have disappear- 
ed before the degenerated young men fond of 
alcohol and cigarette smoking, who spend 
their time with women whom money can buy. 
The lusty, redcheeked maiden, chaste and 
pure, with healthv blood, fine figure and 
swelling breast, has disappeared, and in her 
place we see caricatures of half masculine, 
foolishly ^corated and painted women, which 
nowadays represent the high type. What will 
become of the generation procreated by such 
as these? Will we never again have mothers 
who will let their children drink health and 
vigor from their breasts, rear them in sensible 
and natural surroundings and keep them heal- 
thy with the assistance of the good old house 
physician who never uses poison, but cures 
through prevention? 

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We have devised a way of preventing dis- 
ease and curing it in a natural way, with means 
that regenerate and invigorate the blood, and 
it is victoriously fighting its way to 
general recognition. In time we may be able 
to make so-called "inevitable" children's dis- 
eases a matter of the past, and to raise a gen- 
eration in which the sins of the forefathers 
are extinct, so that new and healthy offspring 
will be the result. But until such time, until 
the final victory of the biological-hygienic 
system for the prevention of disease, we are 
able to cope with the still existing conditions, 
and to heal, if proper attention is paid to our 
teachings. 



Diet for Children in General. 

For the infant child, as well as for its mother, 
it is best when it is nursed by the mother. The 
infant should receive the breast every three hours 
approximately, and no food should be given 
during the night, in order to make the feeding 
regular and avoid intestinal catarrh through 
over-feeding. A certain diet is necessary for a 
nursing mother. Hot spices and dishes producing 
much gas, must be avoided. Tight clothes that 
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prohibited. If the mother is unable to nurse the 
child, and a wet-nurse cannot be afforded, the 
child must be fed artificially, and this requires 
painstaking care and attention. The main factor 
is to secure good cow's milk, which is most like 
human milk. Milk from cows that are kept in 
dairies, should not be used, for these animals 
constantly live in dark cellars or stables that lack 
fresh air, and this is very detrimental to the milk. 
All milk should be heated carefully, thereby approx- 
imating the temperature of the mother's milk be- 
fore it is fed to the infant. The nursing bot- 
tle and the rubber caps must be kept scrup- 
ulously clean. The milk should be shaken thor- 
oughly before being used in order to make a per- 
fect intermixture of the milk and cream, and is 
warmed to blood temperature at from 86° to 98.6°. 

The newly born infant is not able to digest un- 
diluted miik, and therefore must receive: 

1st to 5th day: 1 part milk to three parts 
water. 

5th to 30th day: 1 part milk to two parts 
water. 

30th to 60th day: Half milk, half water. 

3rd to 8th month: 1 part milk, one-half part 
water. 

Or: 

1st to 3rd month, every 2 hours; 1 part milk, 
two parts water, with the addition of 2 table- 
spoonfuls milk sugar to 1 or 1^ quarts milk. 

4th to 5th month, every 3 hours: 1 part milk, 1 
part water. 

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6th to 9th month: 2 parts milk, 1 part water. 

Thereafter pure milk, with the addition of very 
little sugar, or some mush made of oatmeal or 
something similar. Among the preparations that 
are best known are Knorr's and Nestle's. Not 
until the first teeth have made their appearance, 
should one begin to give thin grit soup, a few 
soft boiled eggs, and a little more solid food. In- 
fants fed artificially must receive food frequently. 

Later on, still maintaining the milk diet, light- 
milk and milk and flour dishes, vegetables and 
tender, hashed meat may be given. Infants and 
even older children should, under no circumstan- 
ces, receive various delicacies, highly seasoned 
and greasy dishes, sausages and alcohol. Strong 
tea and coffee are poison to the nervous system 
of children. 

In case of intestinal diseases milk must be 
substituted with decoctions of cereal flour. Fur- 
thermore, Dech-Manna chocolate and malt-choco- 
late, boiled in milk, are recommended. 



Diet for School Children. 

The appetite of children increases with their 
growth and their years, and is always a sign of 
good health. Much exercise in the open air is of 
the greatest and most valuable benefit to child- 
ren. It is not, however, immaterial how children 
are fed. The theory that children should receive 
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correct from the standpoint of discipline, but it 
may bring about trouble if the food that is 
offered does not agree with the stomach of the 
child. Food for children should be light and dis- 
play variety. It is not correct to believe that 
what is eaten with aversion, has a healthy effect, 
and by forcing children to eat food against which their 
natural instinct rebels, parents have often seri- 
ously injured their children. 

In general, soup, vegetables, farinaceous dishes 
or a little meat and fruit is sufficient for the prin- 
cipal meal. In the morning a cup of milk, cocoa 
or weak coffee (fruit or malt), with a piece of 
bread; for anemic children, butter and bread and 
honey. Prepared in various forms, plenty of 
milk and farinaceous dishes, rice, grit, oats, barley, 
cornmeal, fruit dishes and cooked fruit should be 
eaten, which all children like and which are su- 
perior in their effects, since they are so easily 
digested. Pure water with a little fruit-juice 
added occasionally; in the afternoon weak tea 
with milk, fruit coffee, cocoa, malt chocolate; in 
the summer time, cold sweet or sour milk; these 
should be the drinks for growing children. Bread 
and butter with a little marmalade is always wel- 
come. When fruit is in season, some fresh fruit 
and dry bread is sufficient in the afternoon; the 
supper should be simple, warm or cold, but 
without much high seasoning; potatoes with but- 
ter, soft boiled eggs, bread and ham, good cold 
roast, soup or some well prepared farinaceous 
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be served very hot, should be well masticated and 
eaten with little to drink during the meal. It is 
better to take a glass of water before the meal. 

Alcoholic drinks are strictly prohibited, since 
they produce nervous irritation and make study 
much harder. Game, when not too strong and 
without spice, is good for growing children. 
Dishes prepared from internal organs, such as 
liver, kidneys and brains, are usually repugnant 
to children, and should be avoided. - Smothered 
vegetables are preferable to those cooked with 
flour. Salads for children should not be highly 
seasoned, but should be prepared with butter, 
cream and lemon juice, in which form they are 
of great nutritive value. Avoid delicacies and 
mayonnaise dressing. Ice cream is the delight 
of most children. Permit small quantities and 
with crisp pastry only, so as to avoid catarrh of 
the stomach. Children should have one or two 
meals between the regular meals. Greatest variety 
should prevail at dinner and supper, and the fa- 
vorite dishes of the various children should be 
served from time to time. 

Taste and appetite are the means by which 
the intestinal organs express what they consider 
most suitable for the system. That which tastes 
good not only influences the health of the body, 
but also the mental condition of the child. Pro- 
per food, ample time for play and much fresh air 
will make the physician's visit a rare necessity. 
However, if a child becomes ill, medical advice 
should be obtained immediately and followed 
strictly, thus avoiding many sad experiences. 

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FEVER AND ITS TREATMENT BASED 
ON BIOLOGY. 

Nearly all children's diseases are combin- 
ed with fever, and even without any of the 
characteristic symptoms of the various dis- 
eases, children are often subject to more or 
less intense attacks of fever. Therefore, in 
the following pages we are giving an extens- 
ive description of fever from a biological 
standpoint, together "with its dietetic treat- 
ment, not cure, for as will be seen, fever in 
itself is not a disease, but the attempt of nature 
to get rid of a disease. This description will 
also serve as a very valuable illustration of 
the way in which all subjects mentioned in 
my work, "Dare to Be Healthy," are treated. 

4* 

General Description. 
Fever is one of the protective institutions 
of the body, which very often acts most ad- 
vantageously in the interests of the preserva- 
tion of the organism. It is a symptom, or 
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an increase of temperature, acceleration of 
metabolism, excitement of the nerves, numb- 
ness and frequently delirium. Undoubtedly 
a fever of longer duration and high tempera- 
ture may injure the body to the extent that 
death ensues. There have been, however, gt 
all times, believers in the supposition that this 
disturbance does not hurt the organism under 
all circumstances and by itself. Fever has at 
all times been regarded and to a much higher 
degree today than formerly, as a healthy re- 
action against diseased matter, as an ex- 
pression of the healing tendency of nature. 
Hippocrates considered it an excellent reme- 
dy. Thomas Campanello recognized its quali- 
ties of removing diseased matter. This 
doctrine is corroborated by the findings in re- 
gard to infections. Through fever the organ- 
ism is freed from micro-organisms which have 
forced their way in. Fever operates like fire, 
destroying the contagious matter. After this 
is done the remnants are excreted through in- 
tense and offensive smelling perspiration. 
Experiments have taught us, that the growth 
and the resisting power of many microbes de- 
crease if the temperature of the body rises * 
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a remarkable fact that in every disease where 
bacteria are found, there is a special type of 
fever, which takes its course in such strict 
accordance with the law, that the physician is 
thereby able to determine the nature of the 
disease. 

While the degree of temperature is decis- 
ive in regard to the conditions of life for the 
micro-organisms, the height of temperature 
in itself does not offer a standard for the 
gravity of danger. It is the duty of the phy- 
sician to fight fever, since the patient may 
die with a high temperature as well as with 
a low one. To decide this question it is neces- 
sary to regard fever, not as a disease, but as 
what it really is in essence; a symptom which 
accompanies the greatest variety of process- 
es of diseases, a symptom of the most variable 
significance in various cases. It must be 
fought like other symptoms, such as vomiting, 
coughing, pains and diarrhoea, in a general 
way, whenever it is not a manifestation of the 
healing tendency of the organism. In decreas- 
ing the fever, we moderate the excitement of 
the nerves, remove the numbness, secure calm- 
ness, refreshment and sleep, and defend 
against threatening manifestations of disease. 

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Very often there is no intention of treating 
the fever, but the disease which causes the 
fever. We must consequently not be guided 
by the thermometer but by the condition of 
the nervous system. 

Two conditions must be observed in treat- 
ing fever according to the rules of biology. 
In the first place, the treatment of febrile 
diseases must not be carried on in accordance 
with general principles, but individually, ac- 
cording to the nature of the disease and each 
different case. In the second place, it is 
necessary that the antipyretic treatment, to 
reduce the fever, should not be foreign to the 
organism and should not be such as is not 
measurable in degrees as to its effects, or has 
any unpleasant accompanying effects. Only 
the biological system of healing answers these 
demands. Only physical forces, adequate to 
the human organism, measured according to 
biological laws, may influence vital occur- 
rences with the hope of success and without 
the danger of unfavorable accompanying ef- 
fects. Only physical remedies and treatments 
allow the use of adequate gradations which 
will answer the power of reaction of the organ- 
ism. In the appropriate application of cer- 

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tain influences of nature, especially in the di- 
versified application of water, we possess a 
mode of procedure, assisted by an appropriate 
dietetic regime, which, adapted to the prin- 
ciples of the biological method of healing, to 
the conditions of life of the healthy and the 
diseased man, offers advantages, which no 
other treatment offers, and benefits the pa- 
tient to an extent which cannot be valued too 
highly. 

In treating fever we must, in the first 
place, follow the impulses of our instinct. 
We must, however, harmonize them with the 
fundamental laws of the biological method of 
treatment, if we want to do the right thing. 
Instinctively a hot forehead requires the ap- 
plication of cold compresses, cold feet the use 
of such procedures as will bring about heat. 
Tormenting thirst is appeased by a mouthful 
of cooling water. But the impulse of instinct 
would also induce the extremely hot, feverish 
persons to dip into cooling water, so, in order 
to find the right thing, we must consult the 
fundamental laws of the biological system 
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Treatment. 

Having- made the reader acquainted with 
these biological explanations of what fever is, 
it may be interesting to give an extensive de- 
scription and explanation of a treatment in 
case of fever such as it should be in general. 
For those who want to know, it will be an 
indication and enable them to start the fever 
treatment in the right way with the most 
simple means, until the hygienic physician 
arrives- I again want to call special attention 
to the importance of not forgetting the main 
point, i. e., to individualize, and not to cling 
literally to each and every rule. 

Of all hygienic treatments of fever, which I 
have followed for many years, there is none more 
clearly, simply and intelligibly described than that 
which Dr. C. Sturm has published in his book, 
"Die naturliche Heilmethode," ("The Natural 
Method of Healing.") I will, therefore, in my ex- 
planations follow his German text, translated, and 
add to it, in parenthesis, my advanced methods 
of treatment, especially the hydropathic and diet- 
etic treatment, which answer the demands of mo- 
dern biological therapy more fully. 

In the first place, as stated above, fever is in- 
dicated by an abnormally hot skin. This heat is 
noticed even when only touching the patient's skin 

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with the palm of the hand. A precise measure- 
ment of the heat of course requires a thermometer, 
the best one being a so-called maximum thermo- 
meter. The temparature is taken by putting the 
lower end of the glass into the arm-pit or in the mouth 
or the rectum of the patient, and leaving it there for 
from 8 to 10 minutes, when the increase in temperature 
can be read. 

The temperature of the skin, however, is not 
the only indication of fever. We notice at the 
same time a lively action of the pulse up to 120 
beats and even more per minute; furthermore, in- 
creased thirst and, as indication of very intense 
affection, extreme exhaustion and feebleness. The 
increased excretion becomes manifest, as stated be- 
fore, through dark and strongly smelling urine 
and, especially at the time when the fever begins 
to break, through intense perspiration. 

Especially in the beginning of fever the change 
between chills and abnormal heat is very charac- 
teristic; in frequent cases, especially of severe 
diseases, it begins with shivers. The patient sud- 
denly feels a very intense chill, so that he begins 
to shake all over, his teeth chatter and he grasps 
whatever he can obtain to get warm. Immediately 
thereafter an intense increase of temperature oc- 
curs, and the patient begins to complain of great 
heat. In other cases patients state that they are 
feeling very cold, while their skin is very warm. 

In higher degrees of temperature, the fever 
may lead to loss of consciousness. The patient 

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becomes delirious, loses control of urine and stool, 
and shows all signs of extreme collapse. 

Fever, as I have indicated above, being a re- 
volution, a state of excitement, is so different as 
to cause, kind and degree in its character that it 
cannot be judged according to a fixed rule. Of 
course we may read the degree of temperature of 
a patient from the thermometer. But the real na- 
ture of the fever we do not learn, before consi- 
dering the patient's constitution, his inborn fa- 
culties and the strength which his various organs 
have attained. For this we must take into consi- 
deration not only the body, but also the strength 
of the senses and the mind, because these moments 
are of the greatest importance in determining the 
"tenacity," i. e., the power of resistance of the 
patient. 

From this point of view we will understand 
that people having a calm and phlegmatic tempe- 
rament, will not attain high degrees of fever, ex- 
cept in case of very serious complications, while 
nervous people may quickly reach very consider- 
able degrees of temperature. Children and young- 
er people are more inclined to high fever, since 
their organs have not yet matured. We can con- 
sequently understand why simple inflammations, 
which do not spread over larger sections of the 
body, or frequent indigestion, which in itself does 
not have the character of a dangerous illness, will 
take their course in the case of children "under 
the gravest symptoms." So that we will have to 
judge severe symptoms of fever entirely differently 

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if manifested by people of calm temperament, than 
when manifested by people of nervous tempera- 
ment. 

Unfortunately fever has heretofore been treated 
according to fixed, set rules. As soon as the tem- 
perature of a patient rose from 98.6° and 99.5° to 
100.4°, it was stated that there was fever, and pre- 
parations were made to treat it, which treatment 
became more energetic the higher the fever rose 
to 105.8° and 107.6°. It was said that under all 
circumstances the temperature had to be lowered 
to normal. This idea is decidedly wrong and 
most dangerous for the patient. For, while a 
calm and phlegmatic patient may stand this strong 
reduction of excitement in his internal organs, 
which in fact require it, the procedure necessary 
to bring it about as a rule exceeds what the 
nervous person can endure. The fever should 
not be reduced more than the patient can stand; 
according to his strength, otherwise extreme irri- 
tation must follow, such as has caused the death 
of hundreds of thousands. It is better, therefore, 
to leave a nervous patient in his fever and 
strengthen him by various devices, so that he can 
overcome the fever, and later on he may need and 
consequently be able to stand stronger measures. 
(For this purpose I recommend simple ablutions, 
in some cases also the application of abdominal 
packs for half an hour, using two-thirds water 
and one-third vinegar. In addition, the natural vigor 
of the patient is to be strengthened by making him 
drink, at intervals from half an hour to two hours, 

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alternately Dechmann's Serogen and Dechmann'S 
Tonogen.) 

The procedure must be in proportion to the strength 
of the patient. Thus the quiet, energetic man can 
endure energetic packs ; his nature in fact requires them. 
His body may be completely packed or at least three- 
quarters, by placing the dry and wet sheets around 
his entire body except his arms, while the woolen 
blanket is either wrapped around the whole body, in- 
cluding the arms, or, like the other two, leaves the 
patient free to move his arms, which are then only 
covered by the bed-clothes. A patient of this kind 
may also be treated with ablutions or put into a half 
bath at 75 degrees, while cooler water is poured over 
him. Young, strong people have endured even cooler 
baths as powerful stimulants. 

The more a patient approaches a nervous, weak 
condition, the more caution is required to allow him 
lukewarm baths only, or, still better, ablutions at 77 
degrees, which may be made severer by not drying the 
patient. It is very beneficial to weak patients to fre- 
quently wash their hands, face and neck, without dry- 
ing them. A very careful treatment of the hair is also 
a great necessity, especially for women. Clean and 
well combed hair is very beneficial to a patient. Slight 
ablutions of the head and combing the hair while wet, 
are very cooling and refreshing. 

The stronger the nature of a patient, the easier on© 
can rely on a single procedure. Thus, cold packs may 
be sufficient in case of high fever if applied about 
every half hour or hour, or, if the fever is not quite 
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hours. With weaker persons more variety of proce- 
dure is imperative, but none of them must be applied 
very energetically. In these cases mild ablutions 
should be used several times during the day, and they 
may be alternated with packs of the whole lower part 
of the body or packs on the calves of the legs. 

Cool or cold enemas are rapidly absorbed and thus 
have a quieting influence on the large blood reservoir 
in the abdomen. Little mouthfuls of water are also 
taken from time to time, but too much water always 
weakens the patient. 

Diet in Case of Fever. 

As diet in case of fever I recommend the prescrip- 
tions of Professor Moritz, University of Berlin, which 
are identical with my experiences, as far as a fever 
diet is concerned, and in addition the psysiological- 
chemical cell-food which I have used for many years 
with the greatest success (Dech-Manna Diet). Its im- 
portance is so great because it does not only prevent 
the destruction of the cells, but has a strengthening 
effect in general. 

Entering into the physiological field which, however, 
as a rule is subject to the supervision of the physician, 
the field of dieteties among the diseases in the section 
of the digestive organs, we will first look upon one 
group, the febrile diseases. Whatever differences in 
manifestations the febrile diseases may show, the febrile 
reduction of the digestive capacity of the stomach and 
the bowels is so characteristic, that I consider it appro- 
priate for the purpose of this work to mention it in 
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True, fever also shows considerable disturbance of 
metabolism, since the decomposition of the albumen is 
increased in an abnormal way. This fact, however, docs 
not require any particular attention, in regard to diet. 
As far as is possible, we also during fever exercise an 
economizing effect on the decomposition of the al- 
bumen of the body through the introduction of all kinds 
of food that produce energy, so that it is not neces- 
sary to give preference to any one particular kind of 
food. 

The injury to digestion during fever comprises not 
only the peptic functions, which manifest themselves 
clearly in a reduction of the excretion of hydrochloric 
acid, but in functions pertaining thereto, the motory 
as well as the resorptive. 

The danger that the patient will get too much solid 
food that is hard to digest, is in general not very great 
during acute fever, since the patient shows a decided 
lack of appetite. The other extreme is more likely to 
occur, that the amount of nutrition given the patient 
is less than what is required and helpful, because too 
much consideration is bestowed upon the feelings of 
the patient. Formerly the general belief prevailed that 
fever would be increased in a detrimental way by in- 
troducing too much food into the body of the patient, 
and following this doctrine, the patient was permitted 
to go hungry. This, however, is absolutely erroneous. 
No one will feed a feverish person in a forcible way, 
but it is absolutely imperative to take care that he re- 
ceives food productive of energy in reasonable quanti- 
ties. 

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As a rule hardly one-half, or at the most two- 
thirds of the normal quantity of nurture necessary for 
the preservation of life, may be introduced into the or- 
ganism in case of acute febrile disease. We have in- 
dicated above that there is no particular danger in 
such partial "inanition'' (starvation) for a short period, 
but that, accordingly, the qualitative side of nurture 
becomes more important the longer the fever lasts, it 
has also been mentioned that the organism reduces its 
work of decomposition, gradually adapting itself to the 
unfavorable conditions of nurture, and thus meets our 
efforts to maintain its material equilibrium. 

It is important always to make use of any periods of 
remission and intermission, during which the patient 
has a better appetite and can digest more easily, to give 
him a good supply of food. It is also well to give as 
much nourishing food as possible to a patient in the 
beginning of an illness, which is likely to last a consid- 
erable time, as long as the patient is not yet totally 
under the effects of the febrile disease. The nurture 
must then be gradually reduced in the course of the 
illness. 

As to quality, the diet will have to be selected from 
forms II and III, and will consequently consist of 
slimy soups, in some cases with the addition of a nutri- 
tive preparation or Qgg, meat jelly, milk and possibly 
thin mush and milk. The quantity of food which the 
patient may receive can only be given approximately, 
i. e., adults in case of a sustaining diet: soup l / 2 pint, 
milk and milk mush 1-3 pint, meat 3 oz., farinaceous 
food the same, 2 eggs, potatoes, vegetables, fruit sauces 
2 to 2 l / 2 oz., pastry and bread 2 oz. These quantities 

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must be considered as the maximum for each portion. 
The quantity of beverages at each meal must also be 
very moderate, not exceeding 3 to 6 oz., so that the con- 
tents of the stomach are not diluted too much, and ihe 
stomach is not overburdened unnecessarily. 

The reduced meals are harmonized with the object 
of sufficient general nurture by eating more frequently, 
about 5 to 6 times a day. Patients with fever should 
have some food in small quantity every 2 to 3 hours. It 
is important to fix the time when the patient should 
have food. He will feel best if this course is followed, 
and nursing will be made easier. 

As a rule fever is accompanied by an increased 
thirst, which may be satisfied without hesitation. It is 
unnecessary, if not detrimental, to torment patients who 
already have an increased excretion of water through 
the fever heat, by letting them suffer from thirst. Since 
the mucous membrane of the digestive channel is usual- 
ly not very sensitive to weak chemical food irritations, 
the cooling drinks which contain fruit acids, such as 
fruit juices and lemonades, are as a rule permissible. 
Fruit soups may also be given. Of course it is different 
if an acute catarrh of the stomach or of the bowels is 
combined with the fever. In such cases fruit acids 
must be avoided. Still, it is not necessary to resist the 
desire of the patient to obtain whatever he has to take, 
at a low temperature. Even ice cream, vanilla or fruit 
water ice may be used in moderate quantity. It may be 
mentioned in this connection that it can also be pre- 
pared with meat juice, in the following way: 

I pound of meat juice (Valentine's, Armour's or 
Liebig's) is mixed with y 2 pound or less of sugar; 2-3 

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oz. of lemon juice from the fruit is added; furthermore, 
2-3 oz. of brandy, containing extract of vanilla, and 3 
yolks are well stirred and the mixture is put into a 
freezer. This quantity will furnish four portions. 

Warning against cold drinks is necessary only in 
case of disease of the respiratory organs when the cold 
drink would cause coughing. 

The use of dietetic stimulants such as Dechmann's 
Tonogen, Eubicgen and Serogen, is the same in these 
cases as has been mentioned in several places previously, 

As soon as the patient has made sufficient progress, 
he may receive more solid food. The salivary diges- 
tion being improved, we may now allow several more 
solid dishes of rice and grit, cooked partly in milk, 
partly in water and eaten with fruit juices. We may 
also give several green vegetables, like spinach, cauli- 
flower, asparagus, com f rev, etc. 

With additional increase in his strength, fresh fish, 
well prepared, is especially refreshing to a patient with 
light fever. 

As to mental diet, in case of severe fever, I recom- 
mend absolute internal and external rest for the 
patient; not much talking, no noise, no visits, no dis- 
turbance of the patient. In the interior of his system 
nature has to accomplish such an enormous task that it 
must receive complete quiet. Just as he who has seri- 
ous thoughts needs quiet in his surroundings, so that 
he can devote all his attention to his thoughts, likewise 
the patient who suffers from fever must devote all his 
attention to his interior exclusively. Whatever dis- 
turbance occurs always has a detrimental effect, and in 
some cases may cost the life of the patient. 

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SOME CHILDREN'S DISEASES. 

Summer Complaint: (Cholera infantum). 

This disease, which causes the death of so 
many infants, is due to the bringing up of in- 
fants with artificial food instead of on the 
mother's breast. It is one of the negative dis- 
eases caused by diminished vitality. The dis- 
ease is similar to Asiatic cholera. An exten- 
sive description of the same is given in Chap- 
ter XI A of my book, "Dare To Be Healthy/' 
Frequent vomiting and diarrhoea, with rapid 
collapse of all vitality, and severe brain dis- 
turbances manifest themselves, and death fre- 
quently occurs after 36 hours. During spells 
of hot weather bacterial germs, impregnating 
the air, frequently enter the milk, and many 
children succumb to the disease at the same 
time, until wind and rain improve the general 
conditions. 



Therapy. 

Diet : The mother's breast or the breast of a healthy 
wetnurse is the very best remedy for this complaint, if 
applied at an early stage. If this is impossible, a soup 
of barley, oats or mucilaginous rice-water, a decoction 
of salep (1 teaspoonful to l / 2 quart of water), or rice 
water (1 teaspoonful of crushed toasted rice to \% 
quart water) are recommended. The missing nutri- 
tive substance is best supplied by calcareous earth (cal- 
cium carbonate), giving J4 teaspoonful in a tablespoon- 

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ful of sweetened water every 3 to 4 hours, for a day 
or two. It is the simplest, yet most wonderful remedy 
ever discovered. It is in cases like this that physio- 
logical chemistry celebrates its victory. Try it and 
you will be convinced. For more vigorous means the 
physician must be consulted, as he should be in any 
case of this kind, and that as quickly as possible. 

Physical: Sponging the entire body of the 
child with lukewarm vinegar and water, 
using one-half vinegar and one-half water, 
may prove very successful- Warm packs 
around the abdomen and extending down 
to the soles of the feet, often prove very 
effective. The abdomen must be kept 
warm. 

So-called Positive Children's Diseases. 
The most advanced research has divulged 
the fact that a number of children's diseases 
are due to rapid increase in vitality, and they 
are consequently termed "positive children's 
diseases." Among them are 

Scarlet fever, Measles, German measles, Chicken- 
pox, Typhoid fever, Diphtheria. 
All of these diseases begin with fever, and 
need to be treated in accordance with the a- 
bove general descriptions for fever. The 
various distinguishing symptoms are enu- 

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meratcd in my book, "Dare To Be Healthy." 
In all cases of feverish attacks the hygienic- 
dietetic physician should be given the oppor- 
tunity of seeing the child as soon as possible, 
and thus determining the actual nature of the 
illness. 

In treating children suffering from these 
positive diseases, great care must be exercised 
to guard against stimulating elements, such 
as sunlight, and it is advisable to hang red 
curtains at the windows. Much fresh air is 
needed in the sick-room. 

The Contagious Character of Children's Diseases. 
In strict adherence to the biological stand- 
point, it is recommended that a child be sep- 
arated from the other children in the house 
as soon as it becomes ill, and if it is not con- 
venient to send the other children away to be 
taken care of by friends, they must at least 
be excluded from the sick-chamber. Each one 
of these diseases develops some sort of bacil- 
lus in its first appearance, and this leaves the 
body and may fall on receptive soil in the 
body of another child. Since all the children 
in one family live in the same environment 
and receive practically the same nourishment, 

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and are of the same parentage, the presump- 
tion prevails that each one of them is equally 
susceptible to the disease with which one of 
the children has been affected. It is, there- 
fore, advisable to apply preventive and pro- 
tective means to them all, by applying ab- 
dominal packs and giving them serogen, which 
will strengthen the white corpuscles of the 
blood in their fight against possibly intrud- 
ing bacilli; also some Dechmann's Tonogen, 
in order to give the red corpuscles and the 
heart the power to endure the greater efforts 
which the demand for increased vitality will 
necessitate. The application of these meas- 
ures will in many cases entirely prevent a 
real attack of the disease, and if not, will at 
least make it easier to master the same. 

The golden rule : Keep the head cool, the 
feet warm and the bowels open; that is the 
golden rule to be followed in the treatment 
of all children's diseases. All means that are 
applied must have but the one object, that of 
making the condition of the blood as good as 
possible, so that it will be in a fluid form 
and circulate readily, richly supplied with all 
the necessary up-building substances This, 

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and not the use of antitoxins, will guarantee a 
speedy return to normal conditions. 

Diet: The importance of the diet in all of these 
diseases has been indicated on several occasions. Its 
application is treated extensively under the fever diet; 
exceptions to be determined by the physician. 

Dech-Manna-Compositions : The composi- 
tions to be used in case of children's diseases 
will, as indicated above, consist mainly of 
Serogen and Tonogen. Small doses of Eubio- 
gen will be of great advantage in promoting 
the general condition of the patient. These 
three compositions should always be available 
in a family where there are children, as their 
application will prove very beneficial in any 
case, even before the arrival of the physician. 

Physical: The correct application of ab- 
lutions of vinegar and water, of partial and 
other packs and various baths, must be left 
to the prescription of the physician, depend- 
ing on the nature of the individual case, and 
the effect on the patient, with the exception 
of the abdominal pack. This should always 
be applied immediately: cold in positive, and 
warm in negative diseases. 

An illustration to show the manner in 
which my book, "Dare To Be Healthy," treats 

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subjects of general interest, and, by divulging 
the scientific nature of diseases, also indi- 
cates the method of preventing, and in case 
they occur nevertheless, of curing the same, 
is given in the following article on one of the 
most dreaded and dangerous diseases, not 
only confined to children. 



DIPHTHERIA. 

From the biological standpoint. 

The real nature of diphtheria is based on the elim- 
ination of fibrin from the lymph and the blood. This 
elimination of fibrin is due to the lack of sufficient 
sodium in the blood, necessary to prevent the coagula- 
tion of the blood, for these salts possess the quality of 
again dissolving and liquefying fibrinous clots then 
have been eliminated. At a time when artificial fer- 
tilization by means of potash, phosphoric acid and ni- 
trogen was still unknown, an adequate quantity of soda" 
and sulphate of soda was taken up by the vegetables 
that are used by us as food, and by the herbs that are 
used as fodder for cattle, but since the advent of ar- 
tificial fertilization, this is no longer the case. Hence, 
even cow's milk is no longer of the consistency so 
beneficial to health, and that accounts for the fact that 
the victims of diphtheria have been so numerous dur- 
ing the last decades. The dissolving and liquefying 
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blood-stains en soiled clothes with soda (carbonate of 
soda) ; the latter dissolves the coagulated blood. Or, it 
may be proven by heating the curd of milk, that is, the 
coagulated portion of the milk, with water in which 
soda has been dissolved; the curds will be dissolved in 
the water. It is also a familiar fact that the addition 
of bicarbonate of soda prevents the coagulation of milk. 

Not only carbonate of soda, but also sulphate of 
soda possesses the specific characteristic of again dis- 
solving coagulated blood-fibrin. But 50 years ago the 
application of sulphate of soda in all kinds of so-called 
inflammatory conditions (inflammation of the lungs, 
pleurisy, brain-fever, etc.) was in vogue quite universal- 
ly, and was very reliable in its action, for the very rea- 
son that it again dissolved and liquefied the coagulated 
blood-clots in the capillary vessels, which is the real 
cause underlying conditions of inflammation. The pro- 
cess is a simple one when we reflect that a cold will 
cause even the finest blood-vessels to contract, so that 
in them the circulation of the blood is retarded cor- 
respondingly. 

However, new arterial blood is continually flowing 
into these blood-vessels, and so, when the detrimental 
effect of a cold (as during a sharp east wind), continues 
for some time, the consequence must necessarily be 
stagnation of the blood (stasis). But stagnant blood 
within the arteries is subject to the process of coagula- 
tion in the same manner as other stagnant blood, that 
is, blood that is taken from the arteries. 

Since organic substance is constantly moving and 
changing, the result of the process of coagulation is 
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ammonia is liberated from the blood, and this exerts 
a paralyzing influence on the functions of the nerves. 
A simultaneous physical accompanying phenomenon of 
this chemical decomposition is the appearance of in- 
creased heat (fever heat), for during the separation of 
the albuminates the amount of heat liberated is the same 
as the quantity that was chemically utilized in building 
up plants, and which was supplied by the heat of the 
sun. (This simple, correct physical explanation for the 
appearance of fever-heat has not yet become generally 
known). Now, when there was a noticeable increase in 
the temperature of the body, it was not only designated 
as fever heat, but figuratively as "inflammatory con- 
ditions. " And it was just in cases of this kind that 
sulphate of soda proved so very efficient. A weak so- 
lution of it was taken up by the lymphatic vessels and 
carried into the blood, and thus coming into contact 
with the eliminated fibrinous clots, it could again lique- 
fy or dissolve them, with the result that the blood could 
again circulate freely. Because of this quality the 
sulphate of soda was named Glauber's miraculous salt, 
in honor of Glauber, the first physician who prescribed 
and applied it. But even in medical science fashion 
holds sway. Sulphate of soda (Glauber's salt) has long 
since gone out of fashion. There are many physicians 
who do not even know that it possesses the power of 
dissolving fibrin ; they think of it only as a laxative. . 

The fact that it does act as such is closely con* 
nected with its application, in concentrated solution. 
According to physical laws the weaker salt solution is 
always drawn towards the stronger one. Thus, if a 
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intestines, the blood and lymph serum containing the 
weaker salt, is drawn towards the intestinal canal, and 
since the strong solution cannot be absorbed by the 
chyle vessels of the intestines, in accordance with the 
physical law mentioned above, the intestinal canal rids 
itself of the solution of Glauber's salt. At the same 
time it is of course accompanied by the contents of the 
intestinal canal, and in many cases this is a very good 
thing, for the digestive canal is thus unburdened of 
accumulated masses of excrement. The result is that it 
is no longer necessary for the blood to tarry in the me- 
senteric arteries to aid the digestion, and can partici- 
pate in the general circulation. 

Now, if we bear in mind that the blood albumen is 
principally a calcareous earth — soda — sulphur albuminate 
and that normal blood-serum, in addition to such soda 
that is combined with organic acids, presents twice as 
much sulphuric as phosphoric salt, we can easily under- 
stand that the blood and lymph albumen will coagulate 
much more quickly if the quantity of soda and sulphur- 
ic salt contained in it has decreased to such an extent 
that it can not keep the blood fibrin in a liquid state. 
And now we notice that children that are apparently 
well fed, since they eat meat freely, easily fall victims 
to diphtheria, while children that are seemingly insuf- 
ficiently fed, as they eat plenty of potatoes and vege- 
tables, remain immune against diphtheria. 

After what has been said above, we can easily ex- 
plain this by calling attention to the fact that meat is 
principally made of phosphate of potash. The insignif- 
icant amount of sulphates contained in meat is but 1-70 
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already been stated, must contain twice as many sul- 
phates as phosphates. In contrast to this, the propor- 
tion of these salts as found in vegetables that grow on 
mountainous soil, is far more propitious. For instance : 
potatoes contain 6 parts of sulphates to 16 parts of phos- 
phates; turnips present the ratio of 7 to 11; carrots, 
5 to 11; celery 10 to 22; spinach 14 to 16; radishes 3 
to 5; cole 11 to 27; cauliflower 10 to 16; cabbage 24 
to 14; and horse-radish even 49 to 20. 

A diet that consists principally of milk and bread 
paves the way for the specific diphtheritic elimination 
of fibrin. For the proportion of salts contained in 
milk is just as unfavorable as in meat (1:80.) So that 
unless the milk comes from Alpine cows, it can hardly 
be considered as sufficiently nourishing for the first 
year of the child's life, during which time the surplus 
of phosphates benefits the growth of the brain and the 
spinal cord, together with the bones. 

And as far as bread is concerned, wheat flour pre- 
sents the same unfavorable conditions as meat and milk. 
But flour from oats and barley is somewhat better, as 
both varieties of grain contain about 5 times as much 
sulphates as are contained in wheat. Rye contains only 
2 times as much as wheat. So there was an important 
reason why prepared barley flour was formerly u c ed 
to prevent scrofula, and as the old Germans manu- 
factured beer from barley malt, we can easily believe 
that the cultivation of barley was preferred to that of 
wheat, and barley bread was as well liked in Germany 
as in the Orient. (When the thousands were fed by the 
founder of religion, it is barley bread that is being 
mentioned in the Bible.) 

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The prevention of diphtheria is best accomplished 
by giving children barley and oatmeal in the form of 
gruel or any other desirable form, and plenty of fresh 
vegetables. This will improve the composition of the 
blood and provide them with the resistant power neces- 
sary for the prevention of diphtheria. 

As to the method of curing diphtheria, a composi- 
tion should be used, consisting of various salts corre- 
sponding to the contents of blood-serum, which is the 
name used to designate blood water. This is the most 
natural and nourishing serum there is'. Of this mix- 
ture 6 grams should be used for children, and 8 grams 
for adults. This amount should be dissolved in a quart 
of water, and then every half hour or hour the child 
should receive from a quarter to a wineglassful, de- 
pending on its age, until normal health is again re- 
stored. This salt solution should be kept on hand in 
every home, and as soon as a child shows a little dis- 
inclination to take food or participate in the usual play, 
or it has a little chill or fever, it should drink some of 
the salt solution, and not wait until a physician has 
to be summoned to diagnose the case. This composi- 
tion is called Serogen. 

Always bear in mind that when a person suffers 
from chills it is a proof that somewhere in the capillary 
system the circulation of the blood is suffering from 
stagnation. It is necessary to counteract this stagna- 
tion at its very first appearance, just as it is possible 
to quench a fire when it first breaks out, while it may 
be impossible to overcome it after it has once reached 
the roof. For a long time it has, alas, been the custom 
to adopt the latter course in medical science. People 

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waited to see whether the disorder was going to mani- 
fest itself in the form of gastric fever or inflammation 
of the lungs or brain fever; then they referred to the 
doctor book in order to ascertain what "science" had 
prescribed for such cases. 

As to the well-known membranous formation in the 
throat in a case of diphtheria, it must be regarded 
merely as an isolated visible symptom; in reality the 
elimination of fibrin, when once begun, effects the en- 
tire system of lymphatic and blood-vessels. This will 
also explain the subsequent conditions of paralysjs, 
which can be traced to a decrease in the supply of 
arterial blood to the terminations of the nerves. As 
was stated above, the stagnant blood liberates ammonia 
and this paralyzes the function of the nerves. 

The salts dissolve the fibrin and at the same time 
have an electrifying effect. Acids also possess the lat- 
ter quality, so that if the body of a patient in the 
first stages of diphtheria, is washed with vinegar, the 
danger will be warded off. Vinegar neutralizes the 
ammonia, which is also liberated in the tissues of the 
skin when there is stagnation in the lymph or blood- 
serum, and the electrifying effect of vinegar, in accord- 
ance with the law that electricity endeavors to travel as 
far as possible, is transferred from the remotest nerves 
in the skin to the finest nerve terminals that are active 
in the inner serous membranes. For the exterior and 
interior skin, having proceeded from the self-same layer 
of the embryonal blastoderm, form one connective 
whole. 

Decided results have been obtained from the use of 
officinal chlorine water (aqua chlorata), diluted with 

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four times the amount of water, and administered every 
quarter of an hour, the dose being one-half spoonful 
(a porcelain spcon to be used in place of a silver one, 
as the silver produces chloride of silver and renders 
the chlorine ineffective.) Hydrogen peroxide, diluted 
with water in the proportion of 1 to 4, is equally effec- 
tive, the dose being a porcelain spoonful every quarter 
hour until the trouble is removed. 

Lime water (aqua calcis), for painting the ulcers : n 
the throat and also used internally, counteracts the 
further decomposition of the albumen, and therefore is 
applied as an antiseptic or disinfectant. 

Acetic ammoniac also has the effect of an antiseptic. 
Even a few doses of a half teaspoonful of acetic am- 
monia, given to the patient every quarter of an hour, 
have a very beneficial effect upon the circulation of the 
blood, as can be discerned by the appearance of a 
warm perspiration. 

Even more remarkable in its effect is the use of my 
Tonogen, which is a formic, acetic, magnetic oxide of 
iron, the dose being a small teaspoonful to one glass 
of water, with three teaspoonfuls of sugar, this form- 
ing a very refreshing drink. It acts as an antiseptic, 
and at the same time is electrifying, because of its con- 
tents of magnetic iron. 

Where this preparation has been adopted as a family 
drink, the children remain protected against diphtheria 
if they receive a glass of same twice a week. This 
Tonogen has even proven itself a life-saver in exceed- 
ingly serious cases of diphtheria, and this fact has re- 
ceived frequent mention, particularly in medical peri- 
odicals. 

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ENDEMIC AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES. 

Among the most dreaded evils of mankind 
are the co-called endemic and epidemic dis- 
eases, such as cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, 
typhus, pellagra (hook-worm), plague. People 
living in accordance with hygienic-dietetic 
rules, as given in my books, will seldom be in 
danger of attack by these diseases, although 
under certain peculiar conditions of environ- 
ment or atmosphere they may be developed. 
In such cases the services of a physician 
should be secured immediately. Any readers 
who are interested in the nature of these dis- 
eases, will find the most detailed and interest- 
ing description, from a biological standpoint, 
in my book, "Dare To Be Healthy." Exact 
knowledge of the nature of these diseases will 
considerably minimize the fear entertained 
regarding them. It will there be learned that 
a sensible and reasonable mode of living re- 
moves all danger of succumbing to the chemic- 
al and physical influences, which constitute 
the real nature of these blood-decomposing 
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DISEASES OF THE SEX. 

Sterility and Impotence and how to cure same. 

Through this final chapter of this brief 
synopsis of the hygienic-dietetic method of 
treatment, we do not wish to present to our 
readers another abstract on certain diseases, 
the seat of which is located in the sexual or- 
gans. So we will not treat sexual diseases of 
men, such as gonorrhoea, or of women, such 
as the various forms of catarrh, leukorrhoed, 
tumors, etc-, nor what is usually termed the 
venereal disease of syphilis, the real nature of 
which has been discussed among the blood 
diseases of more or less hereditary character. 
In the following lines we wish to treat a sub- 
ject, which though not strictly classified 
among diseases, is very often felt even more 
keenly, since it prevents the human being 
from performing the task assigned to it by 
nature, that of reproducing itself and pro- 
pagating the human race by means of healthy, 
happy progeny. 

A great philosopher has stated that hunger 
and love are the elements around which life 
centers. He might even have reduced this 

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statement to love alone, since hunger is only 
a means by which nature compels us to pro- 
long our existence; not for our own sake, 
but for her purpose. Her purpose, however, 
is but the continued reproduction of all liv- 
ing beings; and love is the means to accomp- 
lish this purpose. Whatever mental ac- 
complishments be ours, they do not let us get 
away from this ultimate purpose of nature. It 
is not sensual pleasure alone, it is a great num- 
ber of other climaxes in the feeling of happi- 
ness which refer to that process of continuing 
our own life in our progeny. The strong de- 
sire to have children, the happiness of the 
mother, notwithstanding the enormous amount 
of care and physical pain they cause her, the 
happiness and hopefulness of the father, who, 
notwithstanding the frequent disappoint- 
ments, always sees higher possibilities in his 
children. In fact, we may say that the sexual 
relations between man and woman, especially 
as crystallized in the civilized form of mar- 
riage, contain the elements of the highest pos- 
sible feeling of happiness that nature has in 
store for human beings. 

No wonder that hundreds of books have 
been written on this topic by philosophers, 

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physicians, sociologists and poets, and we may 
say that hardly any topic of life has found so 
much attention in literature. And at the same 
time this most natural, highest expression of 
our human purpose has undergone the most 
unnatural treatment; nowhere has confusion 
about what is right and wrong, desirable and 
despicable, moral and immoral, reigned to the 
extent as in the realm of love, under which 
name we comprise all physical and mental 
acts, necessary for the accomplishment of the 
one great purpose. As to the hygienic-dietetic 
physician, he must be guided by his holy and 
true profession to be the most devoted servant 
of nature in her purpose. To preserve a 
healthy humanity means to preserve it fit for 
this, its natural task. He cannot look upon 
the hundreds of rules, which religion, law, 
philosophy, have created for this one unique 
expression of human life, from any other 
standpoint than from the one that it is the 
task set by nature to every human being of 
either sex to produce new, healthy human be- 
ings. In doing so and in giving this advice, 
he will of course find opportunity to call at- 
tention to many harmful provisions of the 
other guiding human sciences mentioned 

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above, which for social reasons are contrary 
to the high purpose, and to see that such 
should be removed. It is here like in every 
other thing in the world, only complete har- 
mony of purpose and means will bring about 
the ultimate satisfaction that we call happi- 
ness. 

This of course does not mean that the voice 
of nature should be followed in us without any 
control. The high privilege that the sexual 
desire is in us all the time, from its first feeb'e 
indication to its final disappearance, that, 
unlike other similar organisms, ours is not 
bound to certain periods of potential function, 
burdens us with the responsibility of applying 
even to this strong impulse the healthy 
counterweight of moderation by mental opera- 
tion. An education in this direction, individu- 
alized according to the strength of the im- 
pulse, would prevent more harm than does 
the secrecy and ill-advised modesty, against 
which nature protests and takes its revenge, 
by making its highest and most moral act the 
subject of immoral desire for the forbidden 
fruit which lies in human nature. Education 
must not consist in overlooking, but in the 

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idealization of what may be merely sensual 
in the act. This is a demand of social life as 
well as of nature, or to put it more exactly, 
it is justified as a demand of social life, be- 
cause it is a demand of nature in the interest 
of the quality and the quantity of the product. 
And just as only the ripe plant can produce 
healthy fruits, so the youth must become a 
man before he is ripe to be a father, and the 
young girl must become a woman before she 
is ripe to become a mother. 

To be a man means not only to have an 
accomplished education, but also to have 
found a social and economic position in life, 
such as is usually reached only many years 
after the voice of nature has first spoken in 
the young man. After attaining his puberty 
he is ready, nay anxious, and compelled by 
the strongest impulse, to perform a natural 
duty, for the performance of w T hich in its ulti- 
mate result, society as yet has no use. It is 
here the great problem, especially as far as 
the man is concerned, is presented to us with 
its gravest difficulties and with its most dan- 
gerous consequences. It is impossible at the 
same time to establish general rules, how to 

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overcome the gap. It has by no means been 
solved in this country by the farce of elope- 
ments and anti-social marriages, which for so- 
cial reasons are threatened with the greatest 
evil, the prevention of child-birth, and are the 
cause of the enormous number of divorces in 
America. In fact, we cannot do better than 
admit our inability thus far to close this gap. 
In trying, however, to narrow it, we may say 
that education should apply all means to re- 
tard the desire for sexual intercourse in young 
men by rational nourishment, clothing' and 
exercise; by having teachers and parents ex- 
plain the act as a natural one, without dwell- 
ing too much upon the voluptuous side, so 
that enlightenment does not rest with com- 
rades, servants or sporting women; by remov- 
ing as much as possible the indirect sexual 
attractions of lasciviousness, and by teaching 
them to see beauty, including that of the hu- 
man body, as an art, and not as incentive to 
sensualism only. In this way some of the dan- 
gerous years may be overcome, especially 
avoiding masturbation, the danger of which 
lies in the unlimited opportunities for its exe- 
cution and the strain of the imagination. If 
the time, however, has come, when the voice 

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of nature is imperative, the permanent stigma 
of pre-nuptial sexual relations should be taken 
from such women, who under sufficient super- 
vision supply a demand which is so over- 
whelming, that, since time immemorial, no 
measure of ill-advised regulation has been 
able to reduce it. 

The problem is far more simple for the 
female sex. Nature has provided this sex with 
a much less intense desire for the act, in pro- 
portion to the responsibility and the serious 
consequences. On the other hand, the social 
organization allows most women to enjoy the 
legitimate sexual life of marriage in earlier 
years than men. The appearance of menstrua- 
tion gives mothers a good opportunity to in- 
form girls at exactly the right time as lu what 
they must know of sexual life, an informa- 
tion which may be easily given in such a way 
that the restraint of the woman is fully pre- 
served until her time has come. And here 
again the hygienic-dietetic physician, like 
every other true servant of nature, must raise 
his pleading voice for the removal of the stain 
that pre-nuptial child-birth places on most 
girls today. Let individuality also play its 

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part here. The world will by no means be the 
worse. The fruit of a passion without the 
possible chance of the social sanction of mar- 
riage, may be of infinite value to humanity, 
and there is no other means in this world, and 
especially not in this country, the American 
republic, of abolishing the dastardly crime 
against a budding life, such as is committed 
hundreds and thousands of times for a social 
reason only. 

In fact, the desire for a child should at all 
times be the one strong governing motive in 
any marriage. Some modern scientists even 
go so far, contrary to the opinion of the church 
and the law, as to say that a difference as to 
divorce should be made in the case of married 
people, between those having children and 
those having none. In the latter case divorce 
should be facilitated, and the chance should 
not be prevented that those people who are 
formally married and are apparently under 
the relative impossibility of producing chil- 
dren, may be freed from each other, and that 
each of them may have the chance to fulfil 
their duty towards nature through another 
marriage. On the other hand, the existence of 

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a child or children should constitute a much 
stronger tie between husband and wife legal- 
ly than it does today, although morally its 
value should by no means be underestimate!. 
However, it is not the object of this pamphlet 
to discuss the social side of the question fur- 
ther than as to its influences on the hygienic 
side. The physician knows that especially for 
the woman, not only normal sexual life but 
also its consequences, giving birth to children, 
are a necessity to health, the lack of which 
will invariably result in disease or sickness, 
which is so general in its effect that it. at- 
tacks the mental system, and in this way 
again influences in a most dangerous way the 
relations between married people. 

In my book, "Eugenika I, Within the 
Bud," I have given this side of the question 
the most careful and thorough attention, and 
have indicated and shown the ways of prevent- 
ing unhygienic marriages, based upon the 
laws of heredity. It has been shown therein 
how only a complete knowledge of the nature 
of procreation, a knowledge that must be the 
same for women as for men, can prevent the 
unhappy results of so many marriages, in the 

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relation of husband and wife as well as in the 
health, and consequently in the happiness of 
the children. This will, therefore, not be 
touched upon here in any other way than from 
the standpoint of the hygienic-dietetic physi- 
cian, who finds himself confronted with exist- 
ing diseases and evils, all attempts toward 
prevention notwithstanding, and who is called 
upon to help and to heal. For with the great- 
est caution even such evils will not be wiped 
out entirely, although a strict observation of 
the principles as laid down in the book men- 
tioned above, will undoubtedly greatly reduce 
them. 



THE PROCESS OF GENERATION. 

For carrying out the process of generation nature 
has endowed woman and man with an apparatus of 
rather complicated organs, upon the function of which 
the accomplishment of the purpose depends. The female 
generating agent, the egg-cell, which receives the male 
spermatozoon, is produced in the ovarium in many 
specimens, and once every month one of them is de- 
posited near the entrance to the womb, waiting for a 
male cell (spermatozoon) to unite with it. The sper- 
matozoa are ejected in enormous quantities with the 
semen, a thick whitish liquid, from the male testicles, 

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through a channel which opens into the penis, and in 
order to accomplish the act this must be swelled by a 
large quantity of blood entering into its capillaries. 
As soon as the semen has entered the outer sexual 
parts of the woman, the spermatozoa, with the help of 
a movable extension, try to reach the entrance into the 
womb, which opens in the moment of highest ecstasy, 
and if one of them finds the egg-cell ripe for gene r a- 
tion, and pierces its outer membrane, the fertilized egg 
is immediately placed in a suitable part of the womb, 
where the process of cell-division and building up of 
the new organism begins. How the two united cells, 
through the process of pangenesis and the medium of 
the chromosomes, bring together the inheritance of 
the two parents and under its influence form the new 
body, by means of constant nurture through the blood 
of the mother, is also shown in the above mentioned 
book. Yet we want to emphasize once more that this 
natural process is a healthy one, and if normally car- 
ried out, should not be accompanied by any suffering, 
which is only an indication either of constitutional ir- 
regularities or faulty diet and other mistakes in the 
mode of living. 

The above short description of the main process of 
procreation leads us to the analysis of diseases per- 
taining to sex, and especially to sterility, which is the 
object of the present chapter. It is obvious that pre- 
vention of the normal functions of the sexual appa- 
ratus must be either in the organs, which serve this 
process, or in the germinal cells themselves, to the 
functions of which this apparatus is devoted. The 
faults in the apparatus may be absolute, making the 

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sexual act impossible or without effect under all cir- 
cumstances and with any person of the opposite sex, 
or relative, in case the sexual organs of husband and 
wife, although in themselves perfectly capable of func- 
tionating, are unable to operate in their special rela- 
tion. From this it appears that in many cases there 
may exist full capacity "coeundi" and lack of capacity 
"generandi," while the latter may exist in the absence 
of the first. If it is a question of the quality of ihe 
semen or the eggs the main question will always be to de- 
termine whether the deficiency of the eggs which may 
be fertilized, or of the spermatozoa, is organic, or as is 
so often the ease, is based upon faulty nurture, and 
on that same dysemia so often mentioned, which for 
some reason or other does not bring the necessary 
building and nourishing elements to the organs other- 
wise able and willing to receive them. This clearly 
indicates how and where hygienic-dietetic healing 
methods will be able to provide for a regeneration, and 
where mechanical means may intercede with good re- 
sults to bridge the gap between willingness and ability 
to do what one wishes. May humanity, even in this 
introductory point, clearly understand that the knife of 
the surgeon, which hopelessly and for ever removes 
parts of the organs destined for the greatest functions 
of the human body, will invariably and very often un- 
necessarily create more evil than it ever can do good. 
And that wherever it seems best, as in the removal of 
malignant growths, it usually fails. Let the knife, as 
well as the other instruments of the surgeon, be ban- 
ished from the districts of the human body where the 
hopes for posterity are centered in a "Sacred Circle" 

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(See Eugenika I, Within the Bud, First Lesson), as 
long as the slightest hope is left that a reasonable 
hygienic-dietetic treatment may restore hope, results 
and happiness. 

And let us also say right here that among all the 
crimes of the professional surgeon of the present day, 
there is no greater than to use the knife on the ovaries 
of a woman, and thus deprive her of what may keep 
her alive and happy, even in case nature has denied her 
a child : the hope that one day she may be able to give 
life to one. There must be a very grave emergency 
and a question of life and death beyond any reasonable 
doubt, before the verdict should be felled that the ovaries 
must be sacrificed, the surgeon to be but the execution- 
er of an unbiased jury, who will not profit by his bloody 
work, and must not be influenced by the desire of the 
unnatural woman, to be freed for all times of what 
seems to her an undue annoyance. 



/. WOMEN'S DISEASES PERTAINING 
TO SEX. 

A. General. 

Let us first look at the diseases which may befall 
the sexual organs of women, and what has to be done 
to prevent them. We can hardly deny that, especially 
in America, notwithstanding the education of girls is 
somewhat more devoted to healthy outdoor exercise, 
and notwithstanding the fact that the economical life 
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comfort is one of the leading requirements in the con- 
struction of residences of all kinds, the general tendency 
is to look upon the natural task of bearing and bring- 
ing up children, as upon a dangerous, or at least an 
annoying interruption of every day life. This general 
feeling of reluctance towards the creation of children, 
has gradually developed a line of least resistance 
against the attacks of disease upon the sexual organs 
of women in general. The tendency of hygienic phy- 
sicians is to educate mankind as much as possible to- 
wards the prevention of disease and to a reasonable 
and sensible behaviour in case of symptoms of disease, 
until the help of a physician can be secured. 

Thorough advice will be given in my book "Eugen- 
ika III, The Child from Birth to Puberty/' on how to 
preserve the health of children in general, and especial- 
ly during that critical period of approaching puberty. 
We cannot, therefore, repeat in a few words what is 
important enough to require a whole book, and will 
only call attention to the urgent necessity of doing all 
in our power to prevent children — girls no less than 
boys — from acquiring the habit of masturbation. The 
following lines will be devoted to the mature woman, 
and a number of remarks contained therein are trans- 
lated from the excellent German monographs of Dr. 
Anna Fischer-Duenkelmann, a lady who is known 
as one of the best conscientious and successful fe- 
male physicians. We may say right here, however, 
what has been stated so often before in my books, 
that no matter how much enlightenment laymen re- 
ceive from hygienic books, in case prevention fails and 
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the book will very much help them, a good and con- 
scientious hygienic physician must be called. Not to 
do so may, especially in case of sexual diseases, finally 
necessitate the employment of a lawyer, in the fight 
for divorce. 

With the exception of a few morally strong and 
sexually quiet individuals, most men are acquainted 
with all sexual pleasures before they marry, and have 
lost the habit of being satisfied with one woman, so 
that, when married, they force upon their wife either 
an excess of sexual functions, or continue to seek the 
intercourse with others, and, therefore, the permanent 
danger of contamination through sexual diseases ex- 
ists. This excess, together with the natural timidity 
and reluctance of many brides and frequent unskilled 
attempts to prevent pregnancy, are the cause of many 
diseases, which frequently find a well predisposed field 
and environment, making the attack very much easier. 

Anemic and nervous women will, of course, suffer 
most from these diseases, and it will, therefore, be 
wise in every case to remove the predisposition by 
regenerating their blood with a regular treatment and 
the "Dech-Manna Compositions. " The main symptoms 
will be chronic inflammation of the ovaries and womb, 
consequential thereto the hardly ever absent "leu- 
korrhoea." Further development of the condition means, 
besides headache and toothache, mental disturbances, 
such as general depression and weariness of life. Such 
feelings are also the consequence of delay in the month- 
ly menstruation, and lack of information on this point, 
which unfortunately prevails among so many girls, 
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sequence of pregnancy. But, as stated before, since 
pregnancy is by no means a disease and absolutely 
natural for a woman, there is no necessity for such 
ailments during pregnancy, and with proper behaviour 
they can easily be avoided. It is often necessary in 
such cases to secure sexual rest and proper diet for 
the pregnant woman, whereupon vomiting and othjr 
unpleasant manifestations of sickness will disappear, 
and recovery will ensue in a few days. A better 
knowledge of natural conditions would have spared 
these women much suffering, had they consulted a 
hygienic-dietetic physician in time. 

Catarrh of the womb, usually a consequence of 
dysemic blood, and sometimes excessive sexual inter- 
course, is best treated by sexual rest. Its nature is 
that of every other catarrh of any mucous membrane, 
hyperemia, such as every sexual irritation naturally 
causes, and which develops into inflammation. The 
glands excrete a slimy fluid under its influence, and 
this excretion will cease as soon as sexual rest has 
overcome the inflammation. In severe cases the ex- 
cretion, however, becomes permanent, and has a de- 
pressing influence on the general feelings and mental 
concrition. In such cases the best means until the phy- 
sician's advice is obtained, are soft cotton tampor.s, 
soaked in fresh water and inserted during the night. 
Sitz baths and ablutions (aromatic herbs, pine-needle 
extract and radium emanation Sitz baths prescribed 
in my Sanatorium in such cases) will always pro/e 
beneficial, more so than the energetic daily ablutions 
by means of an irrigator. 

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Among over-exertions may be mentioned too fre- 
quent births. Individualizing is here the most sacred 
duty. No woman should be brought to an early grave 
by being forced to do more in this way than her system 
can stand. In itself motherhood is neither dangerous 
nor a disease, and there are women who are able to 
give life to fourteen or sixteen children. In view of 
the effort, however, that every one of these pregnancies 
requires, furthermore in view of the increase in work 
and duties, that the rearing of so many children will 
cause, it becomes imperative to limit the number of 
children as permitted' by the physical strength 
of the mother and the material situation of the father. 
This has nothing to do with the question of the sexual 
functions of constitutionally diseased people. (This 
topic belongs to and is thoroughly discussed in :ry 
book mentioned above, that is, "Eugenika I, Within the 
Bud.") Here we must grapple with the question of 
what should be done in cases where the above rule 
counsels a married couple to desist from the further 
generation of children, while nature still speaks loudly 
in them for the continuance of their sexual relations. 
This case is entirely different from what has been 
called in this country "race suicide," the artificial pre- 
vention of procreation by young couples who have no 
children and who enter the marital relation with the 
distinct understanding not to have any. No conscien- 
tious physician should lend his helping hand to such, 
while it becomes his duty in cases where child birth 
must be interrupted temporarily or permanently for 
the sake of the health of the mother and her other child- 
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conception which are fraught with the least danger 
for the wife and husband alike. Among these the 
coitus interruptus, that is, the separation before the 
act of cohabitation is perfected, is not permissible. 
Its effect on the mental and nervous condition of both 
parties is most detrimental. The conscientious hygienic 
physician, when he advises the cessation of further 
conceptions, will in every case be in a position to re- 
commend the means of preventing pregnancy in the 
proper way. 

Among the grave dangers which, next to its anti- 
social or unnatural character, make a marriage con- 
summated with the intention of preventing pregnancy, 
absolutely condemnable, is the promotion of malign 
growths. The female sex suffers badly from a mar- 
ried life that is childless. The womb is practically in 
a hyperemic condition all the time, as it is constantly 
superirritated through a natural desire or sexual in- 
tercourse and the means employed to prevent this 
from taking effect; the blood-vessels are thus con- 
stantly extended, and lose their elasticity, and all the 
unused strength is stored within the tissue, which na- 
ture has made for a purpose that is not being ful- 
filled. A natural consequence, especially when a pre- 
disposition for this condition exists, after a given time, 
will be the growth of malign tumors, cancer, etc. 
Every woman should consider that, notwithstanding 
the progress of the medical and surgical art, the per- 
centage of cancer has been considerably increased dur- 
ing the last ten years. All careful research has shov/n 
that cancer is caused by just such reasons as the above, 
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Like every other thinking physician, I have long 
come to the conclusion that the knife is not the instru- 
ment to remove the cause of cancer. As to the fre- 
quent occurrence of cancer of the female sexual or- 
gans, it is, as stated above, caused through the fact 
that nature does not receive what rightfully belongs 
to her; so she takes her revenge, and instead of pro- 
ducing its most beautiful creation, a healthy child, will 
change the unused forces into some vicious growth, 
such as tumor or cancer, which, quite logically, appear 
on all organs belonging to the sexual system, includ- 
ing the breast, which the woman is constantly with- 
holding from the fulfilment of its purpose. The most 
dangerous time for the appearance of these growths 
is the menopause, when the monthly cleansing of the 
sexual organs from the unused and deposited blood, 
finally stops. The way is now open to the unlimited 
domination of the power of growths, which has been 
stored for a lifetime. This statement is meant par- 
ticularly for the learned professors, who do not know 
of anything else for overcoming cancer but the knife, 
which will never remove the tendency for the growth 
in the abused blood. For the benefit of the profession 
we have collected an enormous amount of evidence to 
verify the correctness of this theory in regard to can- 
cer, most of it coming from "gynaecologists" who have 
made this subject a lifelong study. 

B. Sterility. 

Of real sterility of a woman we are allowed to 
speak only in case the faculty of producing egg-cells 
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by the male spermatozoa, is completely lacking. This 
most unnatural condition does not happen very fre- 
quently, but it is in many cases a consequence of in- 
flammatory processes of the ovaries, which again may 
be produced by such sexual diseases as gonorrhoea and 
syphilis, and also as, a consequence of typhus, typhus 
recurrens and scarlet fever. The poison of both the 
venereal as well as feverish diseases creates such in- 
flammations as will either kill the egg-cells, or make 
it impossible for the ovaries to throw them off, and to 
move them to the place where they may meet the mr.le 
semen. While it is obvious that in the rare cases of 
absence or atrophy of the ovaries or of their faculty to 
produce eggs, healing, will be possible only by a most 
intense regeneration, the fact that we are able to fight 
the venereal diseases, if we attack them in an early 
stage by hygienic-dietetic means, leaves much hope 
that, as soon as the process of healing is sufficiently 
advanced, the handicap for the production of normal 
eggs will also be gone, and that at the time when the 
general condition of the regenerated blood of a woman 
allows her, from a eugenic standpoint, to create child- 
ren, nature will have returned to her the privilege of 
a healthy woman. 

Notwithstanding, however, the full capacity of the 
ovaries to produce egg-cells which could be fertilized, 
the great happiness to have a child may be denied to 
a woman, her sexual organs not being appropriate for 
conception or birth or either. The organic reasons 
which may prevent conception are a too small or not 
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too wide or too short, and faulty positions of the womb, 
narrowness or wrong position of the orifice. 

The feeling of passion and the emotion caused 
through the rythmical motions of the act produce 
hyperemia of the sexual organs, which in the end 
causes certain involuntary movements and contractions 
of the orifice of the womb, by which the injected semrn 
is sucked in — the only real chance for the spermatozoa 
to meet the egg in its proper position. It is obvious 
that under all of the above mentioned circumstances 
conception is made exceedingly difficult and well- 
nigh impossible, especially when both husband and wife 
are absolutely unaware of these conditions which are 
not conducive to sexual intercourse but decidedly ad- 
verse to conception, since they prevent the essential 
meeting of the female and the male germinating cell. 

It is also of the greatest importance to know that 
nature has tried to remedy the evil of inheritable dis- 
ease to some extent by reducing the conceiving ca- 
pacity of all women who are constitutionally burdened 
with scrofulosis, anemia, tuberculosis, rachitis, diabetes 
and above all, obesity. However, too much stress should 
not be placed on this counter-effect of nature. As far as 
rachitis is concerned, we want to call special attention 
once more, to watch this possible disease of children 
very carefully and to fight it with all the means of 
the hygienic-dietetic healing system, as otherwise seri- 
ous deformities, especially of the bones of the pelvis, 
may ensue, which are so much more dangerous, as 
they may allow conception, but stand in the way of 
birth. Here again it appears how necessary it is al- 
ways to subject the body of children to a close inspec- 

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tion and supervision, and that, wherever the hereditary 
burden of a similar constitutional disease prevails, 
hygienic-dietetic treatment must be carried out, which 
in due time will regenerate the female body, prevent 
the spreading of rachitis, softening and deformation 
of bones, and thus produce a healthy woman, capable 
of fulfilling her task in life. 

Obesity is one of the constitutional diseases which 
aids very considerably in promoting sterility. In fact, 
statistics claim to show that about 20% to 25% of 
such women are sterile in the sense, however, only 
as explained above, that reasonable hygienic-dietetic 
treatment of this evil may regenerate the power 
of the ovaries otherwise clogged by fat and unable to 
produce normal egg-cells in the follicles. 

While anemia, as a rule, is not adverse to con- 
ception, since it is regulated to a great extent by a 
normal sexual intercourse, it is in all cases well to 
treat it before marriage in the manner as indicated 
herein, so as to avoid the catastrophical effects that 
the sudden change from anemia to hyperemia may 
produce. 

Real sterility is sometimes the effect of inter- 
marriage of closely related people. This subject of 
sexual hygienics has been treated very extensively by 
many authorities, and I myself have expressed my 
opinion thereon in my book, "Eugenika I, Within the 
Bud," so I do not want to discuss the subject here any 
further, since when this cause prevails, we have 
a case either of that real sterility, of which we spoke 
in the beginning of this chapter, or a case of relative 
sterility based upon the lack of effect of the spcr- 

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matozoa of a certain individual man on a certain in- 
dividual woman. 

Among the physical obstructions to conception are 
in many cases the benign and still more the malign 
growths, tumors of all kinds, and cancer. We have 
shown above that they are, as a rule, the result of 
voluntary sterility and a revenge of nature for the 
neglect or the improper use of the female sexual or- 
gans. 

Another loud and ringing protest of nature against 
the way the physicians of the old school of "poison 
against symptoms" try to treat her by sheer force, is 
the fact that the use of most of the poisons against 
which we are advocating at every opportunity, creates 
sterility. Among these we mention morphine, opium, 
quinine and mercury as well as iodine. Women, who 
are addicted to drink, are not as dangerous for their 
progeny as are alcoholic fathers. For while they, too, 
may be the cause of being hereditarily burdened with 
the vice, in most cases women addicted to the use of 
alcohol in considerable quantity, such as can rightfully 
be called a vice, are hardly apt to conceive. 

Leukemia, which is so extremely frequent among 
women, is a bad enemy of fertility, for the mucus 
which is produced, acts on the egg-cells, destroying 
them before they are fertilized. It very often prevents 
the spermatozoa from reaching the egg-cell, and in case 
of conception it often kills the bud by keeping the 
inside of the womb in an inflamed condition. 

A chapter in themselves are the flexions and the dis- 
placements of the womb. They exist in a great many 
varieties and for a great many different reasons. They 

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can often be remedied mechanically, if discovered in 
time, and among their many causes is the absurd way 
in which women dress — mainly the corset — again a 
whole book in itself. 

Fertility does not last for ever. It may end at 
an earlier or later time in women, and it certainly ends 
when the menopause declares that nature renounces 
further services of that particular woman in the task 
of reproducing humanity, and permits her the quiet en- 
joyment of the rest of her years, which must, however, 
not in all cases be deprived of the feelings of love alto- 
gether. Should a woman not have found an oppor- 
tunity to exercise her proper functions in time because 
for personal or conventional reasons, she waited too 
long, and should she have lost her fertility before the 
time she makes use of it, then and in this case, while 
the result is practically the same as though sterility 
had existed right from the beginning, she cannot blame 
nature any more for denying her a privilege of which 
she has shown herself unworthy by not making use 
of it, when it was time to do so. 

The real relative sterility means that, while a woman 
may be fertile and able to give birth to a child physic- 
ally, she is prevented through mental or nervous in- 
fluences, acting upon important sexual parts, from 
perfecting the sexual intercourse, either with all men 
or with a particular man. Here again is a wide field 
before us which has been fully treated in "Eugenika I, 
Within the Bud." It is obvious that it is a task of 
great complexity in such cases. Like in all other 
forms of nervousness and mental diseases, an abnorm- 
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and the hygienic-dietetic treatment may exercise its 
most beneficial influence, if properly and timely ap- 
plied. 

Only two of the most important varieties of this 
relative sterility need be discussed in this connection. 
In some cases it is the inability and inexperience cf 
the man which leaves the hymen imperforated for years, 
a most simple and natural and often not detected im- 
pediment to fertility. Of the greater importance and 
frequency is, what we call vaginism, cramps of the 
vagina, which are created through a hypersensibility 
of the often very narrow entrance to the vagina, which 
closes itself tightly against any attempt of a penis, 
and stops it from movement and further intrusion, 
and does not allow any of the ejaculation to enter 
the "Sacred Circle, ,, in which the egg-cell is deposited, 
but is never reached. Among the many different rea- 
sons for this way in which the sensual nerves act in 
contradiction to their task, we find the fear of the 
woman of the unknown that is going to happen to 
her, or, what is still worse, the fear of the repetition 
of the brutal act of a man who rightly or wrongfully 
wanted to take possession of her body. It is in all 
cases fear of one kind or another which thus acts on 
the nerves, and what the man has sinned against the 
whole future of the woman in that way, can be made 
good only fhrough a tremendous mental counter-effect, 
which it is not always in the power even of the best 
and experienced physician to exercise. 

The blame is not always the man's. Often and 
often has the natural coolness, the educated reticence 
and exaggerated shame, of the woman prevented the 

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sexual functions of a man, and thus caused her own 
sterility. This, however, belongs to the chapter on 
the sterility of the male. Whether such coolness of 
a woman is inborn or acquired through excesses in 
masturbation, whether it is a consequence of homo- 
sexuality, which, regardless of its cause, actually con- 
sists in the lack of sensual feelings of a woman to- 
wards men, while they are aroused by other women, 
the consequence is always the same. It prevents the 
full execution of the sexual intercourse by vaginitis 
and otherwise, and hence the creation of progeny. 

And at the end of this chain of causes of the loss 
of one of the greatest happinesses in life for women, 
let us cite what would be called the relative sterility 
(Greek kat' exochen), which is the impossibility of a cer- 
tain individual woman to execute the fertilizing act 
of sexual intercourse with a certain individual man. 
The physical inability may be caused by numerous points 
in the relative structure of the sexual organs. It has 
been recognized by the law of many nations as a reason 
for divorce. Why the same nations did not go a step 
further and legislate an obligatory pre-nuptial expert 
examination before exposing the two people and their 
families to the many inconveniences of a marriage, 
which cannot be one, is intelligible only from the cant 
and hypocrisy which in the disguise of modesty kept the 
expert hygienist, since time immemorial, from this 
most important realm. 

But worse than this, we find that mental 
and consequently physical objection, which 
the woman probably more frequently than 

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the man, will feel, towards the embrace of 
the unloved man whom she has married for 
conventional reasons. This may prove one 
of the insurmountable obstacles of fertiliza- 
tion with otherwise perfect fertility. It is 
another, although in view of its infrequency 
altogether too feeble protest of nature, 
against the rule of men, against the conven- 
tional lies of myrtle and hymn, best man and 
maid of honor, ringing of wedding bells, and 
the words of the Lord, to sanction a rela- 
tion, which is nothing but a cool-blooded 
business transaction. The protest may often 
go unheard and unheeded. But it will sound 
as long as that same conventionality of 
greedy, misguided human society throws into 
the gutter the woman that, driven by despair, 
sells her body for a paltry gift, and puts on 
the throne of admiration and into the social 
columns the American beauty who has done 
exactly the same thing for the millions of a 
successful speculator or for the title of a de- 
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II. THE STERILITY OF MEN. 

In reviewing the causes which may deprive 
matrimony of the delight of offspring caused 
through some inability on the part of the hus- 
band, we must distinguish two groups of causes, 
one of which is real sterility and the other im- 
potence, or as science puts it, impotentia generan- 
dl and impotentia coeundi. It is obvious that the 
two may exist in combination, but each of them 
may also exist by itself, and a man who is well 
able to execute sexual intercourse, may at the 
same time be impotent to execute the necessary 
act, so that from two entirely different causes the 
same result may be the outcome. 

In a general way we may say that the evil as 
such is much more apparent in men than it is in 
women. The construction of the genital organs, 
the active and aggressive part, which the man, 
according to the law of nature, has to play in the 
process of sexual relations, make his failure in re- 
gard to the faculty to exercise the act much more 
striking, while his failure to fertilize, notwith- 
standing the ability to perform the act, is very 
seldom presumed, and the responsibility for the 
lack of progeny in such cases is, as a rule, laid 
to the wife, who is tormented with all sorts of 
cures, while a simple microscopical inspection 
might prove that it is by no means her fault, or 
at least not her fault alone, which causes the 
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be confronted with the question to determine why 
certain sexual relations with an apparently nor- 
mal performance of the act remain sterile, he 
should never omit to investigate by means of 
his microscope whether the reason does not lie 
in the man. 

A. Permanent or Temporary Sterility. 

The condition in which a man finds himself in 
such a case is "Azoospermia," the lack of sperma- 
tozoa in his semen, or "Aspermatism," the lack of 
the seminal fluid altogether, which in the worst 
form is combined with the lack of spermatozoa, 
while sometimes, notwithstanding the regular pro- 
duction of spermatozoa, the aspermatism may 
prevent the possibility of ejaculating them. The 
total lack of semen is extremely rare. It happens, 
however, often that on account of phimosis or 
Strictures of the urethra, the semen is not ejacu- 
lated, but is pressed back into the bladder. No 
question that in many cases a defect of this kind 
can be completely healed by the proper treatment 
of the mechanical cause. It may be said in this con- 
nection that the cruel way of cautherizing and cathe- 
terizing the urethra, which in many cases is left to the 
unskilled hand of the patient, has caused more evil 
than good, and that only a thorough regenerative treat- 
ment of the blood, combined with a very careful and 
experienced mechanical treatment of the organ, should 
be applied. 

As to Azoospermia, this condition is much more 
frequent and especially in its milder form of Oligozoo- 

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spermia, which means that, while the spermatozoa are 
not lacking altogether, they are only few in number, 
do not move very quickly, act tired and show all signs 
of degeneration. Azoospermia is in some cases inborn. 
It is frequently a consequence of obesity, where it has 
been found in about 9% of all cases, according to the 
investigations of Professor Kisch. Chronic alcoholism 
is another cause. In most cases the cause of azoo- 
spermia is a violation of the testicles, degeneration of 
same in case of syphilis, cancer or tuberculosis, swell- 
ings, bruises, contusions, inflammations. It is fre- 
quently caused by diseases of the seminal ducts, where 
blood, pus and other secretions of the mucous mem- 
branes mix with the sperma and poisoning cells, or 
cause intense narrowing of the ducts or shrinking of 
the testicles. In these cases it is an obstruction of the 
path on which the spermatozoa usually reach the semi- 
nal fluid, and with it the outside. They may exist in 
unbound numbers in their original deposits, but they 
are incarcerated, and only a complete cure of the inter- 
vening obstacles may return them to liberty. The cause 
of most of these obstacles is chronic gonorrhoea, the 
one sexual disease which is in most cases transferred 
through sexual intercourse and which is not sufficient- 
ly recognized in its dangerous consequences. The fact 
is that most men, who are affected with this disease, 
which in its beginning can easily be cured, are either 
trying to apply quack remedies in a most unskilled way 
without the help of a physician, or are treated by 
fakirs, and thus grow worse instead of better. In fact, 
only a few years ago prudery went so far that public 
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which they were entitled, in case of gonorrhoea, — and 
this in view of the fact that 75% of the men who have 
been affected with this disease, if not treated right and 
in time, are denied the happiness of having children. 
In fact, there is hardly any disease which requires 
such careful attention by the hygienic-dietetic phy- 
sician, although it is seemingly so very harmless, while 
its consequences are in so many cases pernicious. 

From the above it is obvious that with the excep- 
tion of total azoospermia there is hope of cure in near- 
ly all cases of the evil. The production of healthy 
sperma and spermatozoa is after all nothing else but 
a regular function of healthy blood, and to restore it 
is certainly possible in most cases, by a proper regen- 
erative cure of the blood, which is only too willing to 
reassume its correct functions. It is a wide field for 
the hygienic-dietetic treatment that opens itself in the 
removal of these causes, especially of temporary lack 
of spermatozoa, or of the faculty to bring them to the 
right point of ejaculation, but the hope that the experi- 
enced hygienist may bring about cure even in some in- 
veterate cases should not induce anybody to wait until it 
may be too late. 

B. Impotence. 

Impotentia coeundi, the impossibility for various 
reasons to execute sexual intercourse, although the 
necessary organs are otherwise in good order, is cer- 
tainly one of the hardest punishments for any man, 
and is the cause of a great deal of unhappiness in 
and outside of matrimony. This impotence has a great 
variety of reasons, there are a great variety of ways 

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in which it appears, and it has one great remedy, — 
the hygienic-dietetic treatment, which by restoring the 
health of the blood, restores the health of the nerves 
or removes constitutional diseases at the root, which 
in so many instances are the causes of impotence. 
We may call this evil a real disease, which exists 
among the poor and not sufficiently fed people no 
less than among the over-fed rich. It consists mainly 
in the impossibility to get an erection of the sexual 
organ, or to maintain it until ejaculation of the semen 
into the orifice occurs. It is not confined to any 
age and happens to younger people no less than to 
people who are naturally on the decline of their sexual 
functions. It is sometimes the result of excessive 
onanism and other excessive use or rather abuse of the 
sexual organs in younger years, but at the same time 
in a great many and perhaps in the majority of cases, 
the result of not using them at all, and living in un- 
natural chastity. Several groups may be distinguished : 
1). Organic Impotence. This may consist in the 
lack or deformity of the sexual organs or of parts 
thereof. Among the deformities of the penis which 
prevent immission or ejaculation are the fact that the 
penis is situated entirely or to the greatest extent with- 
in the scrotum, that it exists in a small stump only, 
that the exit of the urethra is not on the top of the 
penis, but somewhere in the middle, or even on the 
root of it (Hypospadia and Epispadia), Atrophia of 
the swelling glands, narrowness of the prepuce with 
painful swellings of same (phimosis) and natural 
strictures of the urethra, which prevent ejaculation. 
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may be counted in this category where the difference 
in the size of the sexual organs of a certain individual 
man and of £ certain individual woman makes it im- 
possible for them in any way or manner to execute the 
cohabitation. Of course this is not real impotence, 
but in case of matrimony and strict adherence to the 
duties of true husband and wife, will have the same 
consequences. 

2). Functional Impotence. It consists in the im- 
possibility of erection of an otherwise apparently nor- 
mal penis, or its immediate breakdown before or at 
the contact with the female sexual organs. Among 
the constitutional diseases, the existence of which in 
the blood is in many cases the cause for this kind of 
impotence, we may enumerate diabetes, obesity, alco- 
holism. Unfortunately it is not the same with tuber- 
culous people, who sometimes are particularly inclined 
to sexual intercourse. Impotence caused by diseases 
of the spinal cord is also a rule. It is obvious that in 
these cases the impotence is cured with the disease. 

3). Nervous Impotence. This class of impotence 
must be strictly distinguished from the psychic impo- 
tence, inasmuch as it is more real than the other and 
is based on different causes. It is usually the con- 
sequence of neurasthenia and often is its one strongest 
indication and manifestation. It is the disease of men 
devoted to masturbation, as well as of men of leisure 
and pleasure, of men of the world. Bankers, merchants 
with big business transactions, physicians and lawyers 
form a large portion of the men thus affected. This 
kind of impotence will only appear gradually, some 
signs and indications warning the man that the nor- 

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mal process is or is beginning to be out of order. Either 
ejaculation happens too early, before erection is com- 
plete, or it does not produce any feeling of passion, 
and in many cases, where it exists at all, it causes the 
wife no satisfaction, and is the source of deep un- 
happiness, especially when it stops altogether. A par- 
ticular case of this kind is the impotence of men who 
are under constant strain of mental work, from which 
they cannot get their thoughts away, like scientists, 
following up a problem, mathematicians, managers of 
large works, and even artists, concentrated on the pro- 
duction of a special important piece of art. This may 
mean temporary impotence only, it may also develop 
in certain cases into actual impotence, which does not 
even vanish in case of pauses in the intense concen- 
tration. In all cases it is a distinct disease of the nerv- 
ous system, the cure of which can only be perfected 
through and in the same nervous system. 

4). Paralytic Impotence is the severest case of 
nervous impotence, and in many cases means a com- 
plete obstruction of the circulation of additional blood 
to the sexual organs and thereby absolute impotence 
of erection. The methods of coping with paralysis 
and consequently with this form of impotence are ex- 
plained in the different chapters of my book, treating 
this subject extensively. 

5). Psychic Impotence. In fact, this kind of im- 
potence can hardly be called so at all. It is practically 
the restriction of the desire to certain classes and 
groups of women, distinguihed by their exterior or cer- 
tain qualities. It is often that particular fear of in- 
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an insurmountable obstacle. Over-excitement after 
long waiting for a much desired woman, the approach 
of the moment and certain perversities in the sexual 
life of some persons here act as causes, like a marked 
predilection for certain colors of hair, perfumes and 
similar things. Even certain thoughts, as the moral 
dissatisfaction in case of merely conventional mar- 
riages, may produce the same effect. 

6). Homosexual Impotence. Homosexuality, a di- 
stinct form of perversity by which the sexual desire 
is directed towards individuals of the same sex only, 
must here be classified as a separate kind of impotence. 
It is not always the necessary consequence of homo- 
sexuality, and science knows numerous cases in which 
the homosexually inclined person has executed sexual 
intercourse with individuals of the other sex and even 
has had children, with the only restriction that there 
was not the faintest sexual passion. In most cases, 
however, it will be impossible for a homosexually in- 
clined man to cohabitate at all with a normal woman, 
and this is the hardest case of psychic impotence, on 
account of the difficulty of its treatment and change 
into normal sexual feelings. The reason for this 
misguidance of the inclination may often lie in the 
mystery of the developing foetus, and wrong as it is 
to prosecute such people with the force of the criminal 
law, it is wrong of them to deceive women by mar- 
riage or otherwise as to the sexual derangement from 
which they are suffering. 

Into this dark region of suffering and disgust, how- 
ever, falls a ray of hope : With the exception of only 
a few cases of atrophia, or complete azoospermia, im- 

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potence can be healed, and it is one of the great accom- 
plishments of the hygienic-dietetic method that it not 
only shows men the way in which they may preserve 
unaffected potency, but that, if unfortunately and con- 
trary to the logical course of nature, the disease has 
taken hold of them, with the help of a sensible, hygienic- 
dietetic treatment, such as we have devised, health and 
the ability to enjoy what nature has destined to be the 
acme of sensual feelings, may be completely restored. 



FINALE. 

Wide and unlimited as the field of biology 
and the hygienic-dietetic method of healing 
is, I have in the foregoing tried to devise a 
guide that will indicate the points that are 
most necessary to the confidence of the pa- 
tient, based upon knowledge. If I have 
enlightened my readers sufficiently regard- 
ing the most modern results of biological re- 
search, if I have succeeded in showing 
them the ray of hope, in the midst of their 
pain and suffering, that will give them cour- 
age to live, and live as healthy human be- 
ings, I shall feel amply rewarded for the 
hard work that necessarily had to be done 
before the present pinnacle in the art of 

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healing was reached. Let me repeat: this 
pamphlet must not, and shall not, lead any 
one away from the man who knows, who has 
gone to the sources of wisdom, to bring sal- 
vation to those who demand the right to live 
in health and in vigor. To indicate to them the 
path, so that they may not tread it blindly, 
but in the light of knowledge, was my ob- 
ject. The outlines of a great and wonderful 
science are presented. Another wall between 
the layman and the professional has been 
torn down. If, dear readers, you can one day 
say this pamphlet has guided you to the 
right path, back to the enjoyment of life in 
youthful health and vigor, then join me and 
others in propagating these sane and safe 
principles, and make others dare to be 
healthy, as you have dared yourself. 



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